different between payable vs sayable

English

Etymology

pay +? -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe??bl?/
• Hyphenation: pay?able

Adjective

payable (comparative more payable, superlative most payable)

1. Due to be paid.

   Is value-added tax payable on planning application fees?

2. Able to be paid.
3. Of a mine etc.: capable of yielding profit; profitable.

Translations

Noun

payable (countable and uncountable, plural payables)

1. (in the plural) Debts owed by a business; liabilities.
2. (sometimes postpositive) A thing that may be paid.

Related terms

• payability
• payably

English

Etymology

From say +? -able.

Adjective

sayable (comparative more sayable, superlative most sayable)

1. Capable of being pronounced or uttered; articulable. [from 17th c.]

Noun

sayable (uncountable)

1. That which can be said. [from 20th c.]
   • 2015, Ben Lerner, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, vol. 38, no. 12:

     Rimbaud is the enfant terrible who burns through the sayable; Oppen is the poet of the left whose quiet is a sign of commitment.

References

• “sayable” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "sayable" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus © Wordsmyth 2002.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.