Adjective: articulable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more articulable |
| Superlative | most articulable |
Sample Sentences
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It is beyond a doubt that many sounds are articulable, which do not occur in English. [1796, P. W. Fogg, Elementa Anglicana, volume 2, page 159:]
Adjectives inflected like articulable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English articul(ate)
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
5. Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
6. Proto-Italic *-ðlis
7. Latin -bilis
8. Latin -ābilis
9. Old French -ablebor.
10. Middle English -able
11. English -able
12. English articulable
13. From articul(ate) + -able.