domable
English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin domābilis (“tameable”), from domāre (“to tame”), present infinitive of domō (“to break in, to tame”), from Proto-Italic *domaō (“to tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, to tame”); compare Old French domable.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdəʊməbl̩/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdoʊməbl̩/
- Hyphenation: dom‧a‧ble
Adjective edit
domable (comparative more domable, superlative most domable)
- (obsolete, rare) Capable of being tamed; tameable, domesticable.
- Synonyms: domesticable, domesticatable, tamable, tameable
- Antonyms: undomesticable, undomesticatable, untamable, untameable
- 1617, [John Salkeld], A Treatise of Paradise. And the Principall Contents thereof: […] , London: Printed by Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter, →OCLC, page 188:
- And this may alſo bee the reaſon, why God preſenting all other creatures to the preſence of man, he did not likewiſe bring him the fiſhes as well as the beaſts of all ſpecies and kindes, because the beaſts being domable, and eaſie to be tamed by man (at leaſtway whiles man was ſubject to God) might serue for the vſe of man, while man was not diſobedient to God: […]
- 1815, Antonio de Alcedo, “Provincial Terms, &c.”, in G[eorge] A[lexander] Thompson, editor, The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. Containing and Entire Translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo, […] In Five Volumes, volume V, London: Printed for the author, and published by Carpenter and Son, […]; [et al.], →OCLC, page 8:
- Alpaca. (Camelus Pacos,) also Paco. […] This animal, like the camel, is domable, and will carry from seven to nine stone; it will fall on its knees for the convenient reception and exoneration of its burthen.
- [1831, Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, edited by M[ateo] Seoane, Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages; […] In Two Volumes, 5th edition, volumes I (Spanish and English), London: Printed for Longman, Rees, and Co. [et al.], →OCLC, page 336:
- Domáble, a. Tameable, conquerable, domable, susceptive of taming.]
Derived terms edit
- domableness (obsolete, rare)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin domābilis, from domō (“to tame”), from domus (“house”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
domable m or f (masculine and feminine plural domables)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “domable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014