abatable

English

Etymology tree

English abate

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English abatable

From abate + -able.

abatable (comparative more abatable, superlative most abatable)

Capable of being abated. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]^[1]
an abatable writ or nuisance.

Capable of being abated

^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abatable”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.