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inarticulable

adj

Etymology

First attested in 1825: formed as in- + articulable; compare inarticulate and the slightly earlier (1824) French inarticulable.

  1. borrowed from articulātus
  2. suffixed as articulable — “articulate + able”
  3. prefixed as inarticulable — “in + articulable”

Definitions

  1. Not articulable

    Not articulable; incapable of being articulated.

    • I add two letters to this class, under the title of anomalous, which are the Arabic qaf (incorrectly written g, in the Plate, instead of q,) and the Hebrew, or Arabic ain, which some suppose to be inarticulable by a European voice.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inarticulable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA