irrelevante

/ireleˈbante/ · B2 · adj

irrelevant, unimportant, moot

🗑️ ir- (not) + relevante (relevant, from Latin relevare, to lift up) = not worth raising

Ir- is the negative prefix, a form of in- before r. Relevante comes from Latin relevare, to raise up. So irrelevante is something not worth lifting into the discussion, which makes it unimportant or moot.

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