durabilis

Latin

Etymology

From dūrāre, dūrō (“to harden, make hard”) +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /duːˈraː.bi.lis/, [d̪uːˈräːbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /duˈra.bi.lis/, [d̪uˈräːbilis]

Adjective

dūrābilis (neuter dūrābile, adverb dūrābiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. durable, lasting

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	dūrābilis	dūrābile		dūrābilēs	dūrābilia
Genitive	dūrābilis			dūrābilium
Dative	dūrābilī			dūrābilibus
Accusative	dūrābilem	dūrābile		dūrābilēs dūrābilīs	dūrābilia
Ablative	dūrābilī			dūrābilibus
Vocative	dūrābilis	dūrābile		dūrābilēs	dūrābilia

Derived terms

• dūrābiliter
• dūrābilitās

Related terms

• dūriter
• dūritia
• dūritās
• dūrus
• dūrē
• dūrēscō
• dūrō
• indūrō

 

Descendants

• Asturian: durable
• Catalan: durable
• → English: durable
• French: durable
• Galician: durable
• → German: durabel
• Italian: durabile
• Occitan: durable
• Portuguese: durável
• Romanian: durabil
• Spanish: durable

References

• “durabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “durabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• durabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.