comestibilis

Latin

Etymology

From comedō (“to eat”) (perfect passive participle stem comest-) +‎ -bilis.

Adjective

comestibilis (neuter comestibile); third-declension two-termination adjective (Late Latin)

edible

Descendants

→ Asturian: comestible
→ Catalan: comestible
→ English: comestible
→ French: comestible
→ Irish: comestible
→ Italian: commestibile
→ Ligurian: comestìbile
→ Occitan: comestible
→ Spanish: comestible

References

“comestibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
comestibilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

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