comprehensible

See also: compréhensible

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?

Proto-Italic *prai

Proto-Italic *prai-

Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *gʰnédti

Proto-Italic *hendō

Proto-Italic *praiɣendō

Latin prehendō

Latin comprehendō

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin comprehēnsibilisbor.

English comprehensible

Borrowed from Latin comprehēnsibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/

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Adjective

comprehensible (comparative more comprehensible, superlative most comprehensible)

1. Able to be comprehended.

Synonyms

• apprehensible, clear, intelligible, understandable; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible

Antonyms

• incomprehensible; See also Thesaurus:incomprehensible

Derived terms

• comprehensible input
• comprehensibleness
• comprehensibly
• intercomprehensible
• noncomprehensible
• uncomprehensible

Related terms

• comprehend
• comprehensive

Translations

able to be comprehended

• Arabic: مَفْهُوم (ar) (mafhūm)
• Belarusian: зразуме́лы (zrazumjély)
• Bulgarian: разбира́ем (bg) (razbiráem)
• Catalan: comprensible (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可懂的 (kědǒng de)

• Czech: pochopitelný (cs), srozumitelný (cs)
• Danish: begribelig, forståelig
• Dutch: begrijpelijk (nl)
• Finnish: ymmärrettävä (fi)
• French: compréhensible (fr)
• German: begreifbar (de), fassbar (de), verständlich (de)
• Hungarian: felfogható (hu), érthető (hu)
• Indonesian: dapat dimengerti, terpahamkan, yang dpt dipahami, yang dpt dimengerti
• Irish: sothuigthe, intuigthe
• Italian: comprensibile (it)
• Japanese: 理解できる (りかいできる, rikai dekiru)
• Korean: 이해할 수 있다 (ihaehal su itda)
• Macedonian: разбирлив (razbirliv)
• Manx: so-hoiggal
• Māori: mahuki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forståelig (no), begripelig

• Polish: zrozumiały (pl)
• Portuguese: compreensível (pt)
• Russian: поня́тный (ru) (ponjátnyj), постижи́мый (ru) (postižímyj), вразуми́тельный (ru) (vrazumítelʹnyj), познава́емый (ru) (poznavájemyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: разу̀мљив

  Latin: razùmljiv (sh)

• Slovak: pochopiteľný, zrozumiteľný
• Slovene: razumljiv
• Spanish: comprensible (es), comprehensible (es) (disused)
• Swedish: begriplig (sv), förståelig (sv)
• Turkish: anlaşılabilir
• Ukrainian: зрозумі́лий (zrozumílyj)

Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1375, borrowed from Latin comprehēnsibilis.

Adjective

comprehensible m or f (plural comprehensibles)

1. comprehensible

Descendants

• French: compréhensible