Innumerable
/ɪˈnjuː.mər.ə.bəl/noun
Too many to be counted.
Did you know?Its roots go back to Latin numerus, “number,” the same ancient source behind words like numeric and enumerate—so this is basically the language of countability itself saying, “I give up.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*nem-
“to allot, assign; to take, distribute”
Latin
Latin
numerus
“a number; a quantity; a group or class”
Latin
Latin
in- + numerabilis
“not countable; that can be numbered”
Old French
OF
innumerable
“innumerable; countless”
Middle English
English
innumerable
“too many to count”