adaptabilis
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
Latin adaptō, adaptāre
Latin adaptābilis
From adaptō, adaptāre (“adapt”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.dapˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.dapˈtaː.bi.lis]
Adjective
adaptābilis (neuter adaptābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- adaptable, that may adapt, that may be adapted.
- 1564, Nicolaus Everardus, Loci argumentorum legales, page 81:
- Exceptio quando ponitur post plures casus et non potest adaptari nisi ad unus illorum debet sic intelligi ut excipiat solum quo ad illum casum cui est adaptabilis.
- When an exception is placed after several cases and it is not possible to adapt it except to one of them, one ought thusly to understand that it exempts only as far as that case to which it is adaptable.
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | adaptābilis | adaptābile | adaptābilēs | adaptābilia | |
| genitive | adaptābilis | adaptābilium | |||
| dative | adaptābilī | adaptābilibus | |||
| accusative | adaptābilem | adaptābile | adaptābilīs adaptābilēs |
adaptābilia | |
| ablative | adaptābilī | adaptābilibus | |||
| vocative | adaptābilis | adaptābile | adaptābilēs | adaptābilia | |
Descendants
- English: adaptable
References
- “adaptabilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- adaptabilis in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016