Adjective: estable
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | estable |
| Singular f. | estable |
| Plural m. | estables |
| Plural f. | estables |
Sample Sentences
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esta carta uos mandamus fazer firme et estauil por sempre iamays (this charter we command you to make firm and stable forevermore) [1266, A. Rodríguez González, J. A. Rey Caiña, editors, Tumbo de Lorenzana. Transcripción y estudio, Estudios Mindonienses, 8, page 173:]
Adjectives inflected like estable
urxente,
somalí,
activista,
monolingüe,
monolingue,
simple,
paciente,
bengalí,
permanente,
chavista,
precedente,
fascista,
contraproducente,
liberticida,
clarividente,
irremediable,
flagelante,
comunicable,
apagable,
influente, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Attestted since the 13th century (estavil, estabil, estabele). From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin stabilis. See: Latin Adjectives '
stabilis'.
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