comestibilis

== Latin == === Etymology === From comedō (“to 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 === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔ.meːsˈtɪ.bɪ.lɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ko.mesˈtiː.bi.lis] === Adjective === comēstibilis (neuter comēstibile); third-declension two-termination adjective (Late Latin) edible Synonyms: edūlis, edibilis, ēsculentus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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.