capabilis

Latin

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kap-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti

Proto-Italic *kapjō

Old Latin kapiō

Latin capiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Latin capābilis

From capiō (“to hold, to contain, to take, to understand”) + -ābilis (“-able”).

capābilis (neuter capābile); third-declension two-termination adjective (Late Latin)

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	capābilis	capābile	capābilēs	capābilia
genitive	capābilis		capābilium
dative	capābilī		capābilibus
accusative	capābilem	capābile	capābilīs capābilēs	capābilia
ablative	capābilī		capābilibus
vocative	capābilis	capābile	capābilēs	capābilia

→ English: capable
→ French: capable
- → Louisiana Creole: capabe
- → Haitian Creole: kapab
- → Mauritian Creole: kapav
- → Romanian: capabil
→ Norman: capabl'ye

“capabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"capabilis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“capabilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.