accompanable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English accompany

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 accompanable

From accompany + -able.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈkʌmp.nə.bəl/, /əˈkʌmp.ən.ə.bəl/

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Adjective

accompanable (comparative more accompanable, superlative most accompanable)

1. (Early Modern, obsolete) sociable
   • c. 1580, Philip Sidney, “The First Booke”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, folio 6, recto, page 6:

     As for the houses of the country (for many other houses came vnder their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by th’ other, & yet not so far off as that it barred mutuall succor: a shew, as it were, of an accompanable solitarines, & of a ciuil wildnes.