vendible
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vendibilis, from vendere (“to sell”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editvendible (comparative more vendible, superlative most vendible)
- Salable; able to be bought, sold, or traded.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 28:
- But as for the multitude of Sermons ready printed and pil'd up, on every text that is not difficult, our London trading St. Thomas in his veſtry, and adde to boot St. Martin, and St. Hugh, have not within their hallow'd limits more vendible ware of all ſorts ready made: […]
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- the regulating of prices of things vendible
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- [I]f thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!
Usage notes
edit- Vendible indicates that something can be sold, whereas marketable signifies that it is proper or fit to be sold, according to regulations and customs.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editsalable
Noun
editvendible (plural vendibles)
- Anything that can be bought and sold.
- 2008 June 12, “Americans Living in a Material World”, in New York Times[1]:
- One thing for sure, with the way the free-market purists have turned everything from political representation to health care to spiritual redemption into mere vendibles, they won’t be pleased with him for pushing this particular line of inquiry.
Catalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin vendibilis.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Central) [bənˈdib.blə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [vənˈdib.blə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [venˈdi.ble]
Adjective
editvendible m or f (masculine and feminine plural vendibles)
- saleable, sellable
- Antonym: invendible
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “vendible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vendible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “vendible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vendible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vendibilis.
Adjective
editvendible m or f (plural vendibles)
- saleable, sellable
- Antonym: invendible
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “vendible”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom Latin vendibilis.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editvendible m or f (masculine and feminine plural vendibles)
- saleable, sellable
- Antonym: invendible
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “vendible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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