declinable

See also: déclinable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English decline

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English declinable

From decline + -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈklaɪnəbəɫ/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

declinable (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Capable of being declined; of a word, having inflections.
   • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 152:

     It is obvious that the system in present-day English is radically different, and that the notion of case (i.e. a form or modification of a declinable word) is now of very little significance.

Antonyms

• indeclinable

Derived terms

• declinability
• indeclinable
• undeclinable

Translations

capable of being declined

• Belarusian: скланя́льны (sklanjálʹny)
• Bulgarian: склоня́ем (sklonjáem)
• Catalan: declinable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 存在變格的 / 存在变格的 (cúnzài biàngé de), 能變位的 / 能变位的 (néng biànwèi de)

• Czech: sklonný
• Finnish: taipuva (fi)
• French: déclinable (fr)
• German: deklinierbar (de), deklinabel (de)
• Greek: πτωτικός (el) (ptotikós)
• Hungarian: ragozható (hu)
• Italian: declinabile
• Japanese: 語形変化ができる (ごけいへんができる, gokei henka ga dekiru)
• Korean: 격(格) 변화(變化)가 있는 (gyeok byeonhwa-ga inneun)
• Latin: declinabilis
• Manx: yn-jeechleayney
• Polish: odmienny (pl)
• Portuguese: declinável
• Russian: склоня́емый (ru) (sklonjájemyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: скло̀њив, де̏клинабӣлан

  Latin: sklònjiv (sh), dȅklinabīlan (sh)

• Slovak: sklonný
• Ukrainian: відмі́нюваний (vidmínjuvanyj)

Further reading

• “declinable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-

Proto-Indo-European *-éyti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti ~ *ḱl̥n‌yénti

Proto-Italic *kl(e)inō

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

▲

Proto-Italic *klei- ~ *kli-influ.

Latin clīnō

Latin dēclīnārelbor.

Spanish declinar

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old Spanish -abile

Spanish -able

Spanish declinable

From declinar + -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dekliˈnable/ [d̪e.kliˈna.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: de‧cli‧na‧ble

Adjective

declinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural declinables)

1. declinable

Further reading

• “declinable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026