irritabilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin irrītō

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin irrītābilis

From irrītō (“to excite, to irritate”) + -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪr.riːˈtaː.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ir.riˈtaː.bi.lis]

Adjective

irrītābilis (neuter irrītābile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. irritable, irascible, short-tempered
2. excitable, susceptible

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	irrītābilis	irrītābile		irrītābilēs	irrītābilia
genitive	irrītābilis			irrītābilium
dative	irrītābilī			irrītābilibus
accusative	irrītābilem	irrītābile		irrītābilīs irrītābilēs	irrītābilia
ablative	irrītābilī			irrītābilibus
vocative	irrītābilis	irrītābile		irrītābilēs	irrītābilia

Descendants

• Catalan: irritable
• French: irritable
  • English: irritable
  • Romanian: iritabil
• Italian: irritabile
• Spanish: irritable
• Danish: irritabel
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: irritabel
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: irritabel
• Swedish: irritabel

References

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