concealable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English conceal

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English concealable

From conceal + -able.

Adjective

concealable (comparative more concealable, superlative most concealable)

1. Able to be concealed.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “A Further Illustration of the Same”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 6:

     […] he denied the omniſciency of God, whereunto there is nothing concealable.

   • 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Superlative”, in Lectures and Biographical Sketches‎^[1], Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, page 141:

     A bag of sequins, a jewel, a balsam, a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.

Derived terms

• inconcealable
• unconcealable

Translations

able to be concealed

• Hindi: गुह्य (hi) m (guhya), गोपनीय (hi) m (gopnīya)
• Manx: so-cheiltyn, so-follaghey