Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

ineluctable

 

incapable of being evaded; unavoidable, inevitable, inescapable

 

In ancient Greek tragedy, the fate of the hero is ineluctable.

 

Related English word: ineluctability

 

Latin root words: eluctor, eluctari, eluctatus - to struggle out; overcome; luctor, luctari, luctatus - to wrestle, struggle, contend

 

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