dissipable
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Etymology edit
From Latin dissipābilis, from dissipāre, also written dissupare (“to scatter, disperse, demolish, destroy, squander, dissipate”), from dis- (“apart”) + supare (“to throw”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
dissipable (comparative more dissipable, superlative most dissipable)
- (obsolete) Capable of being dissipated or dispersed.
- 1603, Philemon Holland, Plutarch's Philosophie, Commonly Called the Morals, published 1041:
- A substance dissipable and apt to be dispersed.
References edit
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “dissipable”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.