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Invincible

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means too powerful to be defeated, overcome, or destroyed
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Stage 1 of 2
invincibilis
Latin · ancient
"unable to be conquered"
unable to be conquered, from in- (not) and vincere (to conquer)
2
Stage 2 of 2
invincible
English · 1400s
"too powerful to be defeated or overcome"
settled as the English word for something too powerful to be defeated
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