different between potable vs potables

English

Etymology

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 p?t?bilis (“drinkable, potable”), from Latin p?t?re (“to drink”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon). P?t?re is the present active infinitive of p?t? (“to drink”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to drink”). The English word is cognate with Catalan potable, Italian potabile, Spanish potable.

The noun is derived from the adjective.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t?b?l/, (non-standard) /?p?t-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po?t?b?l/, (non-standard) /?p?t-/
• Homophone: pottable (non-standard)
• Hyphenation: pot?a?ble

Adjective

potable (comparative more potable, superlative most potable)

1. (formal) Good for drinking without fear of disease or poisoning.

   Synonyms: drinkable, drinkworthy

Coordinate terms

• comestible
• edible
• eatable
• eatworthy

Derived terms

• potability
• potable gold
• potableness

Translations

Noun

potable (plural potables)

1. Any drinkable liquid; a beverage.
   • 1708, John Philips, Cyder

     When solar beams / Parch thirsty human veins, the damask'd meads, / Unforc'd display ten thousand painted flow'rs / Useful in potables.

Translations

References

Further reading

• drinking water on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• optable

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?t?bilis.

Adjective

potable (epicene, plural potables)

1. potable (good for drinking)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?t?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /po?ta.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /pu?ta.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /po?ta.ble/

Adjective

potable (masculine and feminine plural potables)

1. potable

Further reading

• “potable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin p?t?bilis, from Latin poto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.tabl/

Adjective

potable (plural potables)

1. potable
2. (colloquial) OK, passable.
   • Tu penses quoi de la meuf de ton frère ? Potable, sans plus.

Further reading

• “potable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French potable, from Latin p?t?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ta?b?l/, /p???ta?b?l/

Adjective

potable (rare, Late Middle English)

1. Suitable for drinking; potable.

Descendants

• English: potable

References

• “p??t?ble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-22.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?t?bilis.

Adjective

potable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular potable)

1. potable

Declension

Descendants

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin p?t?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /po?table/, [po?t?a.??le]

Adjective

potable (plural potables)

1. potable, drinkable

Derived terms

• agua potable

Further reading

• “potable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Noun

potables pl (plural only)

1. Potable liquids.
2. Beverages.

Anagrams

• postable

Catalan

Adjective

potables

1. plural of potable

French

Adjective

potables

1. plural of potable

Spanish

Adjective

potables m pl or f pl

1. plural of potable