comestibilis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From comedō (“I eat up”) + -bilis. The adjective was built using the perfect passive participle of comedō, which regularly is comēsum, but here appears in the variant comēstum.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ko.meːsˈti.bi.lis/, [kɔmeːs̠ˈt̪ɪbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ko.mesˈti.bi.lis/, [komesˈt̪iːbilis]
Adjective edit
comēstibilis (neuter comēstibile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (Late Latin) edible
- Synonyms: edūlis, edibilis, ēsculentus
Descendants edit
- → Asturian: comestible
- → Catalan: comestible
- → English: comestible
- → French: comestible
- → Irish: comestible
- → Italian: commestibile
- → Ligurian: comestìbile
- → Occitan: comestible
- → Romanian: comestibil
- → Spanish: comestible
References edit
- “comestibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- comestibilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.