durabilis

Latin

Etymology

From dūrāre, dūrō (“to harden, make hard”) +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /duːˈraː.bi.lis/, [d̪uːˈräːbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /duˈra.bi.lis/, [d̪uˈräːbilis]

Adjective

dūrābilis (neuter dūrābile, adverb dūrābiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. durable, lasting

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	dūrābilis	dūrābile		dūrābilēs	dūrābilia
genitive	dūrābilis			dūrābilium
dative	dūrābilī			dūrābilibus
accusative	dūrābilem	dūrābile		dūrābilēs dūrābilīs	dūrābilia
ablative	dūrābilī			dūrābilibus
vocative	dūrābilis	dūrābile		dūrābilēs	dūrābilia

Derived terms

• dūrābiliter
• dūrābilitās

Related terms

• dūrē
• dūrēscō
• dūritās
• dūriter
• dūritia
• dūrō
• dūrus
• indūrō

 

Descendants

• Asturian: durable
• Catalan: durable
• → English: durable
• French: durable
• Galician: durable
• → German: durabel
• Italian: durabile
• Occitan: durable
• Portuguese: durável
• Romanian: durabil
• Spanish: durable

References

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