immense的词源

英文词源

immense: immense: see measure
immense (adj.): early 15c., from Middle French immense (mid-14c.), from Latin immensus "immeasurable, boundless," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + mensus "measured," past participle of metiri (see measure).
For instance, a long while every thing was immense great and immense little, immense handsome and immense ugly. Miss Tippet from the cloisters, could not drink tea with Master Parchment at the White Conduit-house, unless it was an immense fine day, yet probably it might rain so immense, there was no going without a coach. ["Town and Country Magazine" (in "Annual Register" for 1772)]

im-,不，非，-mens,测量，词源同meter,measurable.即没法测量的，巨大的。

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词根词缀： im-不,无 + -mens-测量 + -e → 无法测量的