singable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English sing

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English singable

From sing + -able.

Adjective

singable (comparative more singable, superlative most singable)

1. Capable of being sung.
   • 1981 February 14, Maida Tilchen, “Alix Living With Contradictions”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 18:

     Alix has a consistent style but she's a fantastic writer of melodies, and every tune stands on its own. What she does best is to take highly verbal, lyric-centered songs and make them musical, catchy, and singable.

Derived terms

• singableness
• singably
• unsingable

Translations

capable of being sung

• Arabic: تَلْحِينِيّ (talḥīniyy), غِنَائِيّ (ḡināʔiyy)
• Catalan: cantable
• Czech: zazpívatelný, zpěvný (cs)
• French: chantable (fr)
• German: singbar
• Italian: cantabile (it)
• Portuguese: cantável
• Spanish: cantable
• Swedish: sångbar, kantabel (sv)

Anagrams

• Belgians, Bengalis, baseling, signable