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importable en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French importable.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Insupportable, unbearable.
   • So both attonce him charge on either side, / With hideous strokes, and importable powre […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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importably

importable en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Capable of being imported.

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Deriveds

nonimportable

Translations (7)

it importabile (able to be imported) · el εισαγώγιμος (able to be imported) · pt importável (able to be imported) · fr importable (able to be imported) · gv so-chionnaghey stiagh (able to be imported) · ca importable (able to be imported) · es importable (able to be imported)

importable en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Something that can be imported.
   • Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables. 2015 July, Peter Lloyd, Donald MacLaren, “Assistance to Australian Agriculture from Federation to World War II”, in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (via SSRN):

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