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-ible

 
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var. of -able, occurring in words borrowed from Latin (credible; horrible; visible), or modeled on the Latin type (reducible).
Origin:
< L -ibil(is) or -ībil(is), equiv. to -i- or -ī- thematic vowel + -bilis -ble

-able

 
a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,” associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin (laudable); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition to stems of any origin (teachable; photographable).
Also, -ble, -ible.

Origin:
ME < OF < L -ābilis, equiv. to -ā- final vowel of 1st conjugation v. stems + -bilis
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-able or -ible  
suff.  
  1. Susceptible, capable, or worthy of a specified action: debatable.
  2. Inclined or given to a specified state or action: changeable.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -ābilis, -ibilis : -ā- and -i-, thematic vowels + -bilis, adj. suff.]
-ible  
suff.  Variant of -able.
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-ible

-i*ble\ See -able.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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