-able
后缀
英文释义
后缀
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Able to be done; fit to be done.
— move + -able → movable (“able to be moved”)
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Relevant to or suitable to, in accordance with.
— fashion + -able → fashionable (“relevant to fashion”)
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Giving, or inclined to.
— pleasure + -able → pleasurable (“giving pleasure”)
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Inviting or encouraging a specified behavior.
— Near-synonym: -er (etymology 1, suffix sense 2)
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Subject to.
— report + -able → reportable (“subject to be reported”)
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Due to be.
— pay + -able → payable (“due to be paid”)
词形变化
词源
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
Inherited from Middle English -able, borrowed from Old French -able, from Latin -ābilis, from -a- or -i- + -bilis (“capable or worthy of being acted upon”), from Proto-Indo-European i-stem form *-dʰli- of *-dʰlom (“instrumental suffix”). Not closely related etymologically, though currently related semantically, to able. Displaced native Old English -endlīc.
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
Inherited from Middle English -able, borrowed from Old French -able, from Latin -ābilis, from -a- or -i- + -bilis (“capable or worthy of being acted upon”), from Proto-Indo-European i-stem form *-dʰli- of *-dʰlom (“instrumental suffix”). Not closely related etymologically, though currently related semantically, to able. Displaced native Old English -endlīc.
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