-abilis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From -bilis, by rebracketing of words such as amābilis, where -ā- is the stem-final vowel of a first-conjugation verb (amāre, amō). This long -ā- is unrelated to the short -a- in the word habilis (“proper, apt”), from habeō.
Suffix
[edit]-ābilis (neuter -ābile); third-declension two-termination suffix (chiefly post-Augustan)
- suffixed to noun to form adjectives meaning "able to have or bring, prone to have or bring, having the power to have or bring": -able
- exitium + -ābilis → exitiābilis
- ratiō + -ābilis → ratiōnābilis
- amīcus + -ābilis → amīcābilis
- perniciēs + -ābilis → perniciābilis
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | -ābilis | -ābile | -ābilēs | -ābilia | |
| genitive | -ābilis | -ābilium | |||
| dative | -ābilī | -ābilibus | |||
| accusative | -ābilem | -ābile | -ābilīs -ābilēs |
-ābilia | |
| ablative | -ābilī | -ābilibus | |||
| vocative | -ābilis | -ābile | -ābilēs | -ābilia | |