DictionaryRoot: -ibilis
Latin
-ibilis
able or suitable to be
Forms
- -ibilis
- -ible — The ending shortened through French and English.
Origin
A Latin form of -bilis, often attached to a verb through a linking i.
Note
It expresses possibility or suitability, not a promise that the action will happen.
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adjective
edible
ED-uh-bul/ˈɛdəbl/
Safe or suitable to eat.
Etymology
The pieces express “capable of being eaten.” The ancestor already meant “eatable,” so the modern sense of food suitable to eat preserves that direct connection.
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- infallible
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- irascible
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- legible
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- plausible
- possible
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