unconquerable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English conquer

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English conquerable

English unconquerable

From un- + conquerable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈkɒŋkəɹəbəl/

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Adjective

unconquerable (not comparable)

1. Not conquerable; indomitable.

   Synonym: inconquerable

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, pages 282–283:

     Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in the hands of erring man.

   • 2023 June 2, Charles Xie, “Trilemma Trade-Offs: A New CAP Theorem For Vector Databases Has Emerged”, Forbes Technology Council, in Forbes‎^[1], Forbes Media, archived from the original on 6 June 2023:

     In computing, the unconquerable trilemma is embodied in the well-known CAP theorem for distributed systems, also called Brewer’s CAP theorem. This states that any distributed database can only attain two of three guarantees: consistency, availability and partition tolerance.

Derived terms

• unconquerableness
• unconquerably

Related terms

• unconquerability

Translations

not conquerable

• Catalan: inconquerible, inconquistable
• Esperanto: nekonkerebla
• French: imprenable (fr)
• Greek: ακαταμάχητος (el) (akatamáchitos)

  Ancient Greek: ἀκαταγώιστος (akatagṓistos)

• Hindi: अजय (hi) (ajay)
• Hungarian: legyőzhetetlen (hu)
• Irish: dochloíte, doleigheasta, dosháraithe, doshásaithe
• Latin: impenetrabilis
• Spanish: inconquistable (es)

Noun

unconquerable (plural unconquerables)

1. Someone or something that cannot be conquered.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “unconquerable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “unconquerable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.