-ável
See also: avel
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese -avel, from Latin -ābilis. Compare -able dialectally and in various other languages; e.g. Sicilian -àvili, for a similar morphology.
Pronunciation
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Suffix
[edit]-ável m or f (adjective-forming suffix, plural -áveis)
- -able
- cantar (“to sing”) + -ável → cantável (“singable”)
- aumentar (“to increase”) + -ável → aumentável (“increasable”)
Usage notes
[edit]- This suffix is generally appended to 1st-conjugation verb stems and, in some cases, to Latin stems.
- Some words ending in -ável are directly descended from Latin instead of being formed from a stem and a suffix.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “-ável”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Categories:
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- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
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- Portuguese terms inherited from Latin
- Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/avew
- Rhymes:Portuguese/avew/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/avɛl
- Rhymes:Portuguese/avɛl/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese suffixes
- Portuguese adjective-forming suffixes
- Portuguese epicene suffixes
- Portuguese masculine suffixes
- Portuguese feminine suffixes
- Portuguese suffixes with multiple genders