ductile

English

WOTD – 16 September 2009

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ductilis (“easily led”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌk.taɪl/

Adjective

ductile (comparative more ductile, superlative most ductile)

1. Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
2. Molded easily into a new form.
3. (rare) Led easily; prone to follow.

Synonyms

• (molded easily): flexible, plastic, pliant; see also Thesaurus:moldable
• (led easily): tractable

Antonyms

• (capable of being pulled into thin wire): brittle

Coordinate terms

• malleable

Related terms

• duct
• ductility

Translations

capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire

• Bulgarian: ковък (bg) (kovǎk)
• Catalan: dúctil
• Danish: stækbar
• Finnish: venyvä (fi), muokattava (fi)
• French: ductile (fr)
• Greek: όλκιμος (el) (ólkimos)
• Italian: duttile (it) m or f
• Manx: yn-sheeyney
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: kōngohe
• Norwegian: formbar (no)
• Portuguese: dúctil (pt)
• Russian: тягучий (ru) (tjagučij)
• Slovak: kujný m rozťažný m
• Swedish: duktil
• Turkish: sünek (tr)

molded easily into a new form

• Bulgarian: пластичен (bg) (plastičen)
• Danish: smidig, sej
• Finnish: muokattava (fi)
• Italian: duttile (it) m or f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: dúctil (pt)
• Russian: эластичный (ru) (elastičnyj)
• Slovak: tvárny m tvarovateľný m poddajný m
• Swedish: formbar (sv)

easily led

• Bulgarian: податлив (bg) (podatliv)
• Danish: føjelig
• Finnish: johdateltava, herkkäuskoinen (fi), hyväuskoinen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: dúctil (pt)
• Russian: послу́шный (ru) (poslúšnyj)
• Slovak: poddajný m ovládateľný m

See also

• elastic

Anagrams

• dulcite

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dyk.til/

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Adjective

ductile (plural ductiles)

1. ductile (capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dulcite

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) ductile

1. nominative neuter singular of ductilis
2. accusative neuter singular of ductilis
3. vocative neuter singular of ductilis

References

• ductile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)