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Etymology
Etymology tree English enunci(ate) Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English enunciable From enunci(ate) + -able.
Meanings
- (of words, qualifier:linguistic expressions, usually) Capable of being distinctly enunciated or pronounced in speech.
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(of ideas, qualifier:thoughts, usually) Capable of being expressed clearly in language.
1989, Richard Schechner, "Race Free, Gender Free, Body-Type Free, Age Free Casting," TDR, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring), p. 6, Even scientific propositions regarding entities like "strange attractors" or "quarks" are not understood by many people—and are accepted as real only when these abstruse ideas, often enunciable only as mathematical equations, have been translated into "practical results."
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| more enunciable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most enunciable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |