capabilis
Latin
Etymology
From capiō (“to hold, to contain, to take, to understand”) + -ābilis (“-able”).
Adjective
capābilis (neuter capābile); third-declension two-termination adjective (Late Latin)
- (Late Latin) comprehensible
- (Late Latin) intelligent
- (Medieval Latin) capable
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | capābilis | capābile | capābilēs | capābilia | |
| Genitive | capābilis | capābilium | |||
| Dative | capābilī | capābilibus | |||
| Accusative | capābilem | capābile | capābilēs capābilīs | capābilia | |
| Ablative | capābilī | capābilibus | |||
| Vocative | capābilis | capābile | capābilēs | capābilia | |
Descendants
- → English: capable
- → French: capable
- → Louisiana Creole French: capabe
- → Haitian Creole: kapab
- → Romanian: capabil
- → Norman: capabl'ye
References
- “capabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- capabilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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