8. ineluctable
Published in
Mar 7, 2022
like some life decisions.
~Livy, 6 March 2022
definition
ineluctable [/ˌinəˈləktəb(ə)l/]
adj. inescapable
extended definition
- unable to be avoided; inescapable
etymology
Latin: in- “not, opposite of” + eluctabilis “that may be escaped from” (from verb eluctari “to struggle out of”) → ineluctabilis “unavoidable, inevitable”; 1620s French inéluctable “not to be escaped by struggling”
references
- definitions from Oxford Languages via Google’s English Dictionary
- etymology (word origin information) from Online Etymology Dictionary (“etymonline”)
- my favorite Latin dictionary: William Whitaker’s Words
