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flam·ma·ble    Audio Help   [flam-uh-buhl] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.

[Origin: 1805–15; < L flammā(re) to set on fire + -ble]

flam·ma·bil·i·ty, noun

See inflammable.
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flam·ma·ble    Audio Help   (flām'ə-bəl)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; inflammable.


[From Latin flammāre, to set fire to, from flamma, flame; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]

flam'ma·bil'i·ty n., flam'ma·ble n.
Usage Note: Historically, flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. However, the presence of the prefix in- has misled many people into assuming that inflammable means "not flammable" or "noncombustible." The prefix -in in inflammable is not, however, the Latin negative prefix -in, which is related to the English -un and appears in such words as indecent and inglorious. Rather, this -in is an intensive prefix derived from the Latin preposition in. This prefix also appears in the word enflame. But many people are not aware of this derivation, and for clarity's sake it is advisable to use only flammable to give warnings.

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flammable 
1813, from L. flammare "to set on fire" + -able.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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flammable

adjective
easily ignited 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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flammable [ˈflӕməbl] adjective
able or likely to burn
Example: flammable material
Arabic: قابِل للإلْتِهاب، سريع الأشْتِعال
Chinese (Simplified): 易燃的
Chinese (Traditional): 易燃的
Czech: hořlavý
Danish: brandbar
Dutch: brandbaar
Estonian: kergestisüttiv
Finnish: tulenarka
French: inflammable
German: brennbar
Greek: εύφλεκτος
Hungarian: gyúlékony
Icelandic: eldfimur
Indonesian: mudah terbakar
Italian: infiammabile
Japanese: 燃えやすい
Korean: 잘 타는, 가연성의
Latvian: viegli uzliesmojošs; ugunsnedrošs
Lithuanian: degus
Norwegian: brennbar
Polish: łatwopalny
Portuguese (Brazil): inflamável
Portuguese (Portugal): inflamável
Romanian: inflamabil
Russian: горючий
Slovak: horľavý
Slovenian: vnetljiv
Spanish: inflamable
Swedish: brännbar, lättantändlig
Turkish: yanıcı, kolay tutuşur
See also: flame, flame of the forest

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Flammable

Flam"ma*ble\, a. Inflammable. [Obs.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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