-abilis

== Latin == === Etymology === From -bilis, by rebracketing of words such as amābilis, where -ā- is the stem-final vowel of a first-conjugation verb (amāre, amō). This long -ā- is unrelated to the short -a- in the word habilis (“proper, apt”), from habeō. === Suffix === -ābilis (neuter -ābile); third-declension two-termination suffix (chiefly post-Augustan) suffixed to noun to form adjectives meaning "able to have or bring, prone to have or bring, having the power to have or bring": -able ‎exitium + ‎-ābilis → ‎exitiābilis ‎ratiō + ‎-ābilis → ‎ratiōnābilis ‎amīcus + ‎-ābilis → ‎amīcābilis ‎perniciēs + ‎-ābilis → ‎perniciābilis ==== Declension ==== Third-declension two-termination adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ====