comestibilis

Latin

Etymology

From comedō (“I eat up”) +‎ -bilis. The adjective was built using the perfect passive participle of comedō, which regularly is comēsum, but here appears in the variant comēstum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko.meːsˈti.bi.lis/, [kɔmeːs̠ˈt̪ɪbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko.mesˈti.bi.lis/, [komesˈt̪iːbilis]

Adjective

comēstibilis (neuter comēstibile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) edible

   Synonyms: edūlis, edibilis, ēsculentus

Descendants

• → Asturian: comestible
• → Catalan: comestible
• → English: comestible
• → French: comestible
• → Irish: comestible
• → Italian: commestibile
• → Ligurian: comestìbile
• → Occitan: comestible
• → Romanian: comestibil
• → Spanish: comestible

References

• “comestibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• comestibilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.