different between interminable vs unremitting

English

Etymology

From Middle French interminable, from Late Latin interminabilis

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?t??(?).m?n.?.b?l/

Adjective

interminable (comparative more interminable, superlative most interminable)

1. Existing or occurring without interruption or end; ceaseless, unending.

Translations

Noun

interminable (plural interminables)

1. (mathematics, dated) A repeating decimal.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin intermin?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /in.t??.mi?na.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /in.t?r.mi?na.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /in.te?.mi?na.ble/

Adjective

interminable (masculine and feminine plural interminables)

1. interminable, unending

Derived terms

• interminablement

Further reading

• “interminable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “interminable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “interminable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “interminable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intermin?bilis. Synchronically analysable as in- +? terminer +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.mi.nabl/

Adjective

interminable (plural interminables)

1. unending, endless, ceaseless, neverending

Further reading

• “interminable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Adjective

interminable (plural interminables)

1. unending, interminable

   Synonym: inacabable

Related terms

• terminar

English

Etymology

1728, un- +? remitting, from remit, from Latin [Term?], in now rare sense of “diminish, abate”. Not from (non-existent) *unremit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n???m?t??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n???m????/
• Rhymes: -?t??

Adjective

unremitting (comparative more unremitting, superlative most unremitting)

1. incessant; never slackening
   • 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.

     We can achieve this god?likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.

Derived terms

• unremittingly

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