interminabilis

Interminabilis is a Latin adjective meaning endless or interminable. It conveys the sense of something that cannot be terminated or brought to an end. The form is built from the prefix in- (not, without) and terminabilis (able to be terminated), yielding a phrase equivalent to “not terminable.” In classical Latin, interminabilis would agree with the noun in gender, number, and case as a standard -abilis adjective.

In usage, interminabilis describes events, times, or phenomena that seem without end. It often appears in literary and philosophical contexts to emphasize persistence, duration, or perpetual continuity. In English, the closest translations are interminable (adjective) and interminability (noun), with the sense preserved across many poetic or scholarly renderings of Latin passages. The term is most frequently encountered in academic discussions of Latin language, literature, or philosophy, rather than in everyday modern prose.

As a Latin term, interminabilis is primarily of historical and linguistic interest. It illustrates how Latin compounds can express negation of termination, a concept still recognizable in modern Romance languages and in scholarly translations. The word serves as a bridge for readers of Latin to understand how determinate endings can be described as absent, leading to the common English adjective interminable.