Etymology

audible

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Today it means: Able to be heard. Full definition →

Middle French audible ← Late Latin audibilis ← Latin audire
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromaudire“to hear”
  2. Late Latin · derived fromaudibilis
  3. Middle French · borrowed fromaudible
  4. English todayaudible

Borrowed from Middle French audible, from Late Latin audibilis, from Latin audire (“to hear”).

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.