potable

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊtəbəl/
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• Received-Pronunciation, nonstandard: /ˈpɒt-/
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• General-American: /ˈpoʊtəbəl/
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• General-American, nonstandard: /ˈpɑt-/
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• homophone: pottable (non-standard)
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• South-Asia: /poː.ʈə.bᵻl/
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• homophone: portable (non-rhotic)
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• CMU ARPABET: P OW1 T AH0 B AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The adjective is derived from Late Middle English potable (“drinkable, potable”), from Middle French, Old French potable (modern French potable (“drinkable, potable”)), and from its etymon Late Latin pōtābilis (“drinkable, potable”), from Latin pōtāre (“to drink”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon). Pōtāre is the present active infinitive of pōtō (“to drink”), from Proto-Italic *pōtos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh3- (“to drink”). The English word is cognate with Catalan potable, Italian potabile, Spanish potable. The noun is derived from the adjective.

44 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: صالِحٌ لِلشُّرْب — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Asturian: potable — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Belarusian: пі́тны (pítny) — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Bulgarian: питеен (piteen) — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Catalan: potable — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Chinese Mandarin: 可飲用的 /可饮用的 (kě yǐnyòng de) — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Czech: pitný — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Dutch: drinkbaar — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Esperanto: trinkebla — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Finnish: juomakelpoinen — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Finnish: juotava — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• French: potable — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Middle French: potable — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Old French: potable — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Galician: potable — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Georgian: სასმელი (sasmeli) — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Georgian: სასმელად ვარგისი (sasmelad vargisi) — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• German: trinkbar — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Greek: πόσιμος (pósimos) — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Haitian Creole: potab — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Hindi: पेय (pey) — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Hungarian: iható — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Italian: potabile — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Latin: poculentus — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Latin: pōtābilis — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Manx: iuoil — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Manx: yn-iu — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Middle English: potable — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Norman: potabl'ye — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Occitan: potable — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Persian: آشامیدنی (âšâmidani) — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Plautdietsch: drinkjboa — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Polish: pitny — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Portuguese: potável — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Portuguese: bebível — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Romanian: potabil — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Russian: питьево́й (pitʹjevój) — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Serbo-Croatian: pitak — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Serbo-Croatian: питак — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Spanish: potable — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Spanish: bebedizo — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Swedish: drickbar — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Ukrainian: питни́й (pytnýj) — good for drinking — see also drinkable
• Welsh: yfadwy — good for drinking — see also drinkable