transmissible

English

Etymology

From Latin trānsmissus +‎ -ible.

Adjective

transmissible (comparative more transmissible, superlative most transmissible)

1. Able to be transmitted.

   Synonym: transmittable

   1. (medicine, of a disease) Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.

      Hypernym: infectious

      Synonyms: communicable, spreadable, catching (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)

      Antonyms: nontransmissible, noncommunicable

      Hyponym: contagious

   2. (radio communications or broadcasting, of a message or program) Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.

Derived terms

• intransmissible
• nontransmissible
• transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
• untransmissible

 

Translations

able to be transmitted

• Danish: overførbar
• Dutch: overdraagbaar (nl)
• Hungarian: átadható
• Manx: so-chur
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overførbar

  Nynorsk: overførbar

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: transmisibil (ro) m or n

contagious

• Danish: overførbar
• Hungarian: fertőző (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overførbar

  Nynorsk: overførbar

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: transmisibil (ro) m or n, contagios (ro) m or n

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French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

transmissible (plural transmissibles)

1. transmissible, transmittable

Derived terms

• maladie sexuellement transmissible

Further reading

• “transmissible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.