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There'sno Latin root to 'fathom'. Instead, faethm is the root of 'fathom'. It's an Old English noun whose actual meaning is 'wingspan'. Old English refers to the language of the English people from the fifth through the eleventh centuries.

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'Fathom' has no Latin root. It is a Germanic word.

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