transportable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English transport

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 transportable

From transport + -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹænˈspɔː(ɹ)təb(ə)l/, /tɹɑːnˈspɔː(ɹ)təb(ə)l/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /tɹænsˈpɔɹtəbəl/, /tɹænsˈpɔɹtəbl̩/, /tɹænzˈpɔɹtəbəl/, /tɹænzˈpɔɹtəbl̩/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təbəl
• Hyphenation: trans‧port‧able

Adjective

transportable (comparative more transportable, superlative most transportable)

1. Capable of being transported; easily moved.

   Synonyms: carriable, portatile, shiftable; see also Thesaurus:portable

2. (dated, not comparable) Incurring the punishment of transportation or exile to another place.

   a transportable offence

Derived terms

• transportability

Translations

Capable of being transported; easily moved

• Asturian: tresportable
• Catalan: transportable
• French: transportable (fr)
• Galician: transportable (gl), transportábel (gl)
• German: transportabel (de)
• Hebrew: יָבִיל (he) m (yavil)
• Italian: trasportabile
• Portuguese: transportável (pt)
• Spanish: transportable

See also

• portable

Noun

An early mains-powered plug-in suitcase transportable computer

transportable (plural transportables)

1. (Australia) A semi-permanent building, such as a portable classroom in a school, or accommodation for fly-in fly-out workers.
2. (dated) A portable computer or telephone.
   • 1990, Computerworld, volume 24, number 21:

     In some cases, the heavier transportables are replacing desktop PC models — but they are not leaving the office.

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

transportable (plural transportables)

1. transportable

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

From transportar +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾanspoɾˈtable/ [t̪ɾãns.poɾˈt̪a.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: trans‧por‧ta‧ble

Adjective

transportable m or f (masculine and feminine plural transportables)

1. transportable

Derived terms

• transportabilidad

Further reading

• “transportable”, 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