removable

English

Alternative forms

• removeable

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti

Proto-Italic *moweō

Latin moveō

Latin removeō

Old French removoir

Anglo-Norman removerbor.

Middle English removen

English remove

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English removable

From remove + -able.

Adjective

removable (not comparable)

1. Able to be removed.
   • 1958 September, “Swindon's First Main-Line Diesel Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 601:

     Five of these sections are covered by removable roof panels through which the transmissions, engines and carriage warming boiler can be lifted.

   • 2005, John Kenneth Muir, An Analytical Guide to Television’s Battlestar Galactica, page 187:

     Molded by Mattel in forest green, this action figure was garbed in a removable yellow, sleeveless shawl. He is worth substantially more money if this filigree drapery is still intact.

   • 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, pages 42–43:

     The interior melamine panels were designed to be easily removable for repair or future refurbishment, and the linoleum floor was for easy cleaning.

Derived terms

• irremovable
• nonremovable
• photoremovable
• removableness
• removably
• unremovable

Translations

able to be removed

• Belarusian: здымны (zdymny)
• Bulgarian: отстраним (bg) (otstranim), сменяем (bg) (smenjaem)
• Catalan: desmuntable, extraïble
• Dutch: uitneembaar (nl)
• Finnish: irroitettava
• French: amovible (fr)
• Galician: extraíble (gl) m or f, extraíbel (gl) m or f
• Georgian: შეცვლადი (šecvladi), შენაცვლებადი (šenacvlebadi), გამოცვლადი (gamocvladi), ცვლადი (cvladi), მოხსნადი (moxsnadi), მოცილებადი (mocilebadi), მოშორებადი (mošorebadi)
• German: entfernbar (de)
• Greek: αφαιρετός (el) (afairetós), αφαιρέσιμος (el) (afairésimos), μετακινητός (metakinitós)
• Hungarian: eltávolítható
• Italian: amovibile (it), asportabile, estraibile (it), rimovibile (it), scalzabile, sfoderabile, staccabile
• Manx: yn-scughey, yn-arraghey
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avtagbar, avtakbar

  Nynorsk: avtakbar

• Portuguese: extraível, removível
• Russian: съёмный (ru) (sʺjómnyj)
• Spanish: extraíble (es), de quita y pon (es)
• Tagalog: lagay-alis

Noun

removable (plural removables)

1. Something that can be removed.