-ible

Etymology 1
From Middle English, from Old French, from.

Suffix

 * convertible
 * convertible

Usage notes

 * The form is usually used in the same sense and is pronounced the same, though sometimes equivalent terms have diverged in meaning: compare  with.
 * Generally not productive in English – most words ending in -ible are borrowed from Latin, or Old or Middle French, while is more common for producing new words. Examples of production in English include  and.
 * In general, forms derived from Latin verbs of the second, third, and fourth conjugations take -ible, as well as a few words whose roots end in a soft c or g. All other words take -able, particularly words from the Latin first conjugation, words that evolved through French, and words from Anglo-Saxon.
 * , in his English Usage, recommended using -ible for simplicity in spelling with any verb whose root ends in a soft c or g (such as changible vs. changeable), but this recommendation has generally not been followed.
 * Adjectives ending in -ible are occasionally nominalized, as in, , . The adjective sense may become obsolete, as in.
 * A few words end in “ible” but are not related to this suffix, instead being of different origin, generally a similar Latin suffix. Examples include and . See Etymology 2, below, for details.

Derived terms




Translations

 * Catalan: -able, -ible
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: -tava, -tävä
 * French:
 * Galician: -ábel, -able
 * Georgian: -ადი
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido: -ebla
 * Italian: -ibile, -abile
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: -bil
 * Russian: -а́емый, -а́ющийся
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian: -ber


 * Dutch: various suffixes:, , , , etc.
 * Italian:, or  followed by the noun
 * Swedish: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: -tava, -tävä
 * Galician: -ábel
 * Italian: -ibile, -abile
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: -bil
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Latin: ,

Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old French, from +  (instrumental suffix) or  (instrumental suffix), from. Related to Latin suffixes  and.

Suffix

 * 1) a tool or instrument
 * crucible, mandible, thurible
 * 1) a place or location
 * 1) a place or location

Usage notes
This use of -ible is not productive in English. Confusion may arise from mistaking nouns ending with this suffix as being forms derived from the adjectival suffixes mentioned in Etymology 1 above.

Etymology
.

Suffix

 * , -able

Usage notes

 * This suffix is used for verbs of the second and third conjugations, which end in -er, -re or -ir. For the first-conjugation verbs, which end in -ar, the suffix is.

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
From.

Suffix

 * 1)  (variant of -able)

Etymology
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