determinable

See also: déterminable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English determine

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English determinable

From determine + -able.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

determinable (comparative more determinable, superlative most determinable)

1. able to be determined or limited
2. (law) able to be decided or settled by law
3. (law, postpositive) Of a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event.

Antonyms

• indeterminable
• undeterminable

Derived terms

• determinableness
• determinablism
• fee simple determinable
• predeterminable
• term of years determinable

Related terms

• determinability
• determinably

Translations

able to be determined or limited

• German: bestimmbar (de)
• Italian: precisabile (it)
• Latvian: noteicams, konstatējams
• Portuguese: determinável
• Sicilian: ditirminàbbili, ditirminàvili

Noun

determinable (plural determinables)

1. (philosophy) An attribute of something that is susceptible of determination into various states
   • 2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:

     It is certainly not a Moorean fact that there could have been other determinables or combinations of determinables than those that there actually are.

Spanish

Etymology

From determinar +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deteɾmiˈnable/ [d̪e.t̪eɾ.miˈna.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: de‧ter‧mi‧na‧ble

Adjective

determinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural determinables)

1. determinable

Further reading

• “determinable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025