"capable" in seven languages
Meaningcapable
Spanish
capaz
/kaˈpaθ/
learned
plural: capaces
French
capable
/kapabl/
other source · Late Latin CAPĀBILEM 'able to hold'
Italian
capace
/kaˈpatʃe/
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Portuguese
capaz
/kaˈpas/
learned
Romanian
capabil
/kaˈpabil/
other source · French capable (Late Latin CAPĀBILEM)
Catalan
capaç
/kəˈpas/
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English
capable
/ˈkeɪpəbəl/
other source · French capable, from Late Latin CAPĀBILIS
English → ItaliancapablecapaceNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: capacity, capacious; capable (fr).What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CAPĀCEM‘able to hold, roomy’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Two Latin adjectives from CAPERE 'to hold': Spanish and Italian took CAPĀX (capaz, capace), French and English the later CAPĀBILIS. In parts of Latin America, capaz que also means 'maybe'.
English relatives: capacity, capacious; capable (fr)
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In a sentence
- esEs capaz de cualquier cosa.
- frElle est capable de tout.
- itÈ capace di tutto.
- ptEla é capaz de tudo.
- roE capabilă de orice.
- caÉs capaç de tot.
- enShe is capable of anything.
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