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accompanable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /əˈkʌmp.ən.ə.bəl/ (UK)
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• /əˈkʌmp.nə.bəl/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English accompany Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English accompanable From accompany + -able.

Meanings

1. (Early, Modern, obsolete) sociable
   • As for the houses of the country (for many other houses came vnder their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by th’ other, & yet not so far off as that it barred mutuall succor: a shew, as it were, of an accompanable solitarines, & of a ciuil wildnes. c. 1580, Philip Sidney, “The First Booke”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, folio 6, recto, page 6:

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