palpabilis
Latin
Etymology
From palpāre, palpō (“I touch softly”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /palˈpaː.bi.lis/, [päɫ̪ˈpäːbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /palˈpa.bi.lis/, [pälˈpäːbilis]
Adjective
palpābilis (neuter palpābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (Late Latin) that can be touched or felt, palpable
- 540 CE, Cassiodorus, De Anima "Formam animam non habere":
- corpus vero solidum atque palpabile
- the body [of a thing] is indeed solid and palpable
- corpus vero solidum atque palpabile
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | palpābilis | palpābile | palpābilēs | palpābilia | |
| Genitive | palpābilis | palpābilium | |||
| Dative | palpābilī | palpābilibus | |||
| Accusative | palpābilem | palpābile | palpābilēs palpābilīs | palpābilia | |
| Ablative | palpābilī | palpābilibus | |||
| Vocative | palpābilis | palpābile | palpābilēs | palpābilia | |
Related terms
- palpāmen
- palpāmentum
- palpātiō
- palpātor
- palpebra
- palpebrālis
- palpebrāris
- palpebrātiō
- palpebrō
- palpitātiō
- palpitātus
- palpitō
- palpō
- palpus
Descendants
- Catalan: palpable
- English: palpable
- French: palpable
- Galician: palpable
- Italian: palpabile
- Portuguese: palpável
- Sicilian: parpàbbili
- Spanish: palpable
References
- “palpabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- palpabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- palpabilis in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016