explicabilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *pel-

Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-der.

Latin plicō

Latin explicō

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin explicābilis

From explicō + -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.splɪˈkaː.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ek.spliˈkaː.bi.lis]

Adjective

explicābilis (neuter explicābile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. that may be explained, explicable, explainable

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	explicābilis	explicābile		explicābilēs	explicābilia
genitive	explicābilis			explicābilium
dative	explicābilī			explicābilibus
accusative	explicābilem	explicābile		explicābilīs explicābilēs	explicābilia
ablative	explicābilī			explicābilibus
vocative	explicābilis	explicābile		explicābilēs	explicābilia

Descendants

• → Catalan: explicable
• → French: explicable
• → Galician: explicable
• → Portuguese: explicável
• → Romanian: explicabil
• → Spanish: explicable

References

• “explicabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “explicabilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.