abstractable

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó

Proto-Italic *ap

Latin abder.

Latin ab-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?

Latin trahō

Latin abstrahō

Latin abstractusbor.

Middle English abstract

English abstract

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 abstractable

abstractable (comparative more abstractable, superlative most abstractable)

Able to be abstracted; able to be made abstract. [First attested in the late 19^th century.] ^[1]

able to be abstracted

^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstractable”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.