recyclable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos

Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.

Late Latin cyclusbor.

Middle English cicle

English cycle

English recycle

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English recyclable

From recycle + -able.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

recyclable (not comparable)

1. Able to be recycled.

   Soda cans are recyclable.

   • 2005 March 25, “Collooney: Bring centre: another plea”, in Sligo Champion:

     People are reminded again, as before, please do not leave plastic bottles, milk containers or otherwise at the Bring Centre – there are no plastic containers there any longer for such recyclable materials.

Derived terms

• nonrecyclable
• recyclability
• unrecyclable

Translations

able to be recycled

• Armenian: վերամշակելի (veramšakeli)
• Bulgarian: рециклируем (recikliruem)
• Catalan: reciclable
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可回收 (zh) (kěhuíshōu)

• Czech: recyklovatelný
• Danish: genbrugelig, genanvendelig
• Dutch: recycleerbaar, recyclebaar (nl)
• Finnish: kierrätettävä, kierrätyskelpoinen
• French: recyclable (fr)
• German: recycelbar (de), recyclebar (de), wiederverwertbar (de)
• Greek: ανακυκλώσιμος (el) (anakyklósimos)
• Hungarian: újrahasznosítható (hu), újrafelhasználható (hu)
• Icelandic: endurvinnanlegur (is), endurnýtanlegur
• Italian: riciclabile (it)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: veçerxînbar

• Norman: r'cycliabl'ye
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: resirkulerbar

• Polish: recyklingowalny (pl), przetwarzalny
• Portuguese: reciclável
• Romanian: reciclabil
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} приго́дный для перерабо́тки (prigódnyj dlja pererabótki)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рециклабилан, обновљив

  Latin: reciklabilan, obnovljiv (sh)

• Spanish: reciclable
• Swedish: återvinningsbar

Noun

recyclable (plural recyclables)

1. An object that can be recycled, such as a soda can.

   The garbage and recyclables need to be taken out to the street tomorrow.

   • 1996, James A. Hufnagel, Kathie Robitz, Barbara Sabella, Kitchens: design, remodel, build, page 28:

     A pull-out trash drawer gives you a place to hide kitchen waste and recyclables.

French

Etymology

From recycler +‎ -able, influenced by English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.si.klabl/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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Adjective

recyclable (plural recyclables)

1. recyclable

Further reading

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