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Word Of The Day! 'ineffable' And Origin by Researchclue: 9:31am On Sep 11, 2020
Word Of The Day!

ineffable
[ in-ef-uh-buhl ]
:- incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible.

E.g;
1. The model's beauty is ineffable and has everyone tongue-tied.

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF INEFFABLE?
Ineffable ultimately comes from Latin ineffābilis “(of a word) unpronounceable,” and in Late Latin and Christian Latin “(of the divine name) that cannot or must not be spoken.” Ineffābilis is a compound of in-, the Latin negative prefix that is equivalent to English un– (as in unspoken), and the verb effārī “to speak, speak out, speak solemnly, declare” (itself a compound of the preposition and prefix ex, ex– “out, out of” and fārī “to speak”). Another English derivative, infant, comes from Latin infāns (inflectional stem infant-) “small child, infant,” literally “nonspeaking,” formed from the same prefix in– and fāns, the present participle of fārī. Ineffable entered English in the late 14th century

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