preventable

English

Alternative forms

• preventible

Etymology

Etymology tree

English prevent

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English preventable

From prevent + -able.

Adjective

preventable (comparative more preventable, superlative most preventable)

1. Capable of being prevented.

Derived terms

• chemopreventable
• immunopreventable
• impreventable
• nonpreventable
• preventableness
• preventably
• unpreventable

Translations

capable of being prevented

• Bengali: নিবার্য (bn) (nibarjo)
• Bulgarian: предотвратим (bg) (predotvratim)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可預防的 / 可预防的, 可預防的 / 可预防的 (kě yùfáng de), 可防止的 (kě fángzhǐ de), 可避免的 (kě bìmiǎn de)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: estettävissä
• French: évitable (fr), parable (fr)
• Hungarian: megakadályozható (hu), megelőzhető (hu), elkerülhető (hu), elhárítható
• Japanese: 防げる (ja) (fusegeru)
• Polish: zapobiegalny
• Portuguese: prevenível, evitável (pt)
• Spanish: prevenible

Noun

preventable (plural preventables)

1. Something that can be prevented.
   • 2011, Leonard J. Marcus, Barry C. Dorn, Eric J. McNulty, Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration:

     Nonetheless, we should all like to see fewer of these preventables in our ER and more of that money going to help keep these people safe and healthy.