aestimabilis

Latin

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Latin aestimō
    Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-
    Proto-Italic *haβēō
    Latin habeō
    Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
    Proto-Italic *-ðlis
    Latin -bilis
    Latin -ibilis
    Latin -ābilis
    Latin aestimabilis

    From aestimāre +‎ -bilis.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    aestimābilis (neuter aestimābile); third-declension two-termination adjective

    1. estimable, valuable, worthy of appraisement
      (Can we add an example for this sense?)

    Declension

    Third-declension two-termination adjective.

    singular plural
    masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
    nominative aestimābilis aestimābile aestimābilēs aestimābilia
    genitive aestimābilis aestimābilium
    dative aestimābilī aestimābilibus
    accusative aestimābilem aestimābile aestimābilēs
    aestimābilīs     		aestimābilia
    ablative aestimābilī aestimābilibus
    vocative aestimābilis aestimābile aestimābilēs aestimābilia

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → Middle French: estimable (learned)
      • French: estimable
        • → Romanian: estimabil
    • →? Italian: stimabile

    References

    • “aestimabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “aestimabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • aestimabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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