aestimabilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Latin aestumō

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ae̯s.tiˈmaː.bi.lis/, [äe̯s̠t̪ɪˈmäːbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /es.tiˈma.bi.lis/, [est̪iˈmäːbilis]

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

• inaestimābilis

Related terms

• aestimātiō f
• aestimātor m
• aestimātōrius
• aestimātus
• aestimō

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.