English
inferrible
Inferrible comes from New Latin īnferibilis ‘inferible, deducible’, from Latin īnferō ‘to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in,…’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰer-1‘to bear, carry’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰéreti1‘to be carrying’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ferō1‘to carry, bear’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEferō1‘bear, carry’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnferō2‘to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something’
- New Latinc. 1500–1900īnferibilis3‘inferible, deducible’
- Englishtodayinferrible3
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin infero
- 2 Wiktionary, Latin inferibilis
- 3 Wiktionary, English inferrible
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰer-Wiktionary, Latin infero‘to bear, carry’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰéretiWiktionary, Latin infero‘to be carrying’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*ferōWiktionary, Latin infero‘to carry, bear’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEferōWiktionary, Latin infero‘bear, carry’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEīnferōWiktionary, Latin inferibilis‘to carry, bring, put, place, or throw in, into, to, or upon somewhere or something’
- New Latinc. 1500–1900īnferibilisWiktionary, English inferrible‘inferible, deducible’
- EnglishtodayinferribleWiktionary, English inferrible
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to bear, carry’
bar, birth, broad, bread, fortune, burden, prefer, barrel, barn, bore, fury, bearing, baron, breeze, bark, broom, embargo, fret, berth, barrow, ferret, furtive, bahar, bier, insufferable, bairn, burnish, proffer, barrette, birr, 112 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti ‘to be carrying’
bear, borne, phosphate, phosphorus, euphoria, semaphore, dysphoria, phosphine, indifferently, 90 more
through Proto-Italic *ferō ‘to carry, bear’
differently, suffering, differentiation, indifferent, deference, infertility, differentially, infertile, deferential, differentiator, differentiable, 67 more
through Latin ferō ‘bear, carry’
different, difference, offer, relative, reference, transfer, translation, relation, extraordinary, relate, suffer, frustration, translate, referendum, differ, strangely, referee, fertility, extravagant, fertile, frustrate, elated, defer, fertilization, extraneous, elation, confer, strangeness, ablation, collation, infra, dilate, collate, fertilize, ablative, estrange, oblate, efferent, 78 more
Today it means
adj Synonym of inferable.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “inferrible”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin infero, Latin inferibilis. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- / inferrible