-abilis

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

By rebracketing of words such as amābilis (which comes from amāre, amō), where -ā- is part of the stem of a first conjugation verb. The word habilis (“proper, apt”) is sometimes incorrectly stated as being the origin of the suffix, but instead came from earlier *habibilis, from habeō + -ibilis, and was reduced by haplology.

Suffix

-ābilis (neuter -ābile); third-declension two-termination suffix

  1. -able; able or worthy to be.
    ‎exitium + ‎-abilis → ‎exitiābilis
    ‎ratiō + ‎-abilis → ‎ratiōnābilis
    ‎amīcus + ‎-abilis → ‎amīcābilis
    ‎capiō + ‎-abilis → ‎capābilis
    ‎perniciēs + ‎-abilis → ‎perniciābilis

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative -ābilis -ābile -ābilēs -ābilia
Genitive -ābilis -ābilium
Dative -ābilī -ābilibus
Accusative -ābilem -ābile -ābilēs
-ābilīs		 -ābilia
Ablative -ābilī -ābilibus
Vocative -ābilis -ābile -ābilēs -ābilia

Derived terms
Latin terms suffixed with -abilis

Descendants
  • Catalan: -able
  • English: -able
  • French: -able
  • Galician: -ábel, -able
  • Interlingua: -abile
  • Italian: -abile, -evole
  • Norwegian Bokmål: -abel
  • Portuguese: -ável
  • Romanian: -bil
  • Sicilian: -àbbili
  • Spanish: -able
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