acceptabilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

substratebor.?

Proto-Indo-European *kap-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti

Proto-Italic *kapjō

Archaic Latin kapiō

Latin capiō

Latin accipiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -tō

Latin acceptō, acceptāre

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin acceptābilis

From acceptō, acceptāre + -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ak.kɛpˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [at.t͡ʃepˈtaː.bi.lis]

Adjective

acceptābilis (neuter acceptābile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) acceptable

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	acceptābilis	acceptābile		acceptābilēs	acceptābilia
genitive	acceptābilis			acceptābilium
dative	acceptābilī			acceptābilibus
accusative	acceptābilem	acceptābile		acceptābilīs acceptābilēs	acceptābilia
ablative	acceptābilī			acceptābilibus
vocative	acceptābilis	acceptābile		acceptābilēs	acceptābilia

Descendants

• → Catalan: acceptable
• → Old French: acceptable
  • → Middle English: acceptable, acceptabill, acceptabul, acceptabyll (Northeast Midland), acceptabil (Norfolk), acceptabylle (Catholicon Anglicum)
    • English: acceptable
    • Middle Scots: acceptable, acceptabill
      • Scots: acceptable
  • French: acceptable
    • Mauritian Creole: akseptab
    • → German: akzeptabel
      • → Swedish: acceptabel

References

• “acceptabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "acceptabilis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “acceptabilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.