submersible

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English submerse

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ibilis

Old French -ibleder.

Middle English -ible

English -ible

English submersible

From submerse + -ible.

Adjective

submersible

1. Able to be submerged.

Derived terms

• narcosubmersible
• nonsubmersible
• semi-submersible
• semisubmersible
• unsubmersible

Translations

able to be submerged

• Catalan: submergible
• Dutch: afzinkbaar
• Finnish: upotettava, sukelluskykyinen
• French: submersible (fr)
• German: tauchfähig, untertauchbar
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nedsenkbar

• Portuguese: submersível, submergível
• Spanish: sumergible (es)
• Welsh: ymsuddol, suddadwy

Noun

submersible (plural submersibles)

1. (UK) A small nonmilitary, nonnuclear submarine for exploration.
2. (UK) A retroactive term used for nonnuclear submarines; nuclear submarines are termed true submarines.
3. (UK) A term used primarily by some navies for nuclear submarines, termed true submersibles, because they cannot retroactively declare that their nonnuclear submarines should be called by a different name.
4. (US) A very small baby submarine designed for specific localized missions, usually while tethered to a submarine or ship for life support and communications.

   Synonyms: anchor, midget-submarine

5. (nautical) An underwater vehicle with limited mobility, similar to a submarine, but less mobile.

   Coordinate terms: diving sphere, diving bell, bathyscaphe, submarine

Coordinate terms

• bathyscaphe
• semisub
• semi-sub
• semisubmarine
• semi-submarine
• sub
• submarine

Derived terms

• semisubmersible
• semi-submersible
• sub

Translations

small nonmilitary, non-nuclear submarine for exploration

• Arabic: غَطَّاسَة f (ḡaṭṭāsa), غَاطِسَة f (ḡāṭisa)
• Finnish: pienoissukellusvene

non-nuclear submarine

• Finnish: tavanomainen sukellusvene

nuclear submarine

• Finnish: ydinsukellusvene (fi)

very small submarine designed for specific localized missions and usually tethered

• Catalan: submergible m
• Finnish: pienoissukellusvene
• German: Tauchboot (de) n
• Korean: 잠수정(潜水艇) (ko) (jamsujeong)
• Welsh: llong ymsuddol f

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• French: ^{(please verify)} submersible (fr) m

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin submersus (past participle of submergo) with the suffix -ible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syb.mɛʁ.sibl/

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Adjective

submersible (plural submersibles)

1. submersible

   Antonym: insubmersible

Noun

submersible m (plural submersibles)

1. a submersible

Related terms

• submerger
• submersion

See also

• bathysphère
• bathyscaphe
• sous-marin

Further reading

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