trainable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?

Latin trahere

Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre

Old French traïnerder.

Old French trainder.

Middle English trayne

English train

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English trainable

From train + -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪnəbəl/

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Adjective

trainable (comparative more trainable, superlative most trainable)

1. Capable of being trained, teachable, educatable.

Derived terms

• nontrainable
• trainableness
• untrainable

Translations

capable of being trained

• Portuguese: treinável (pt)

Noun

trainable (plural trainables)

1. (euphemistic, dated) A mentally retarded person who can be trained or taught.
   • 1971, Harriet Eleanor Blodgett, Mentally Retarded Children: What Parents and Others Should Know:

     Toilet accidents for new children in the school are generally at least two or three times as frequent for trainables as they are for educables.

Anagrams

• Albertian, Albertina, bilateran