Etymology

dependable

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Today it means: Able, or easily able to be depended on. Full definition →

English depend ← Middle English dependen ← Old French dependre
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(s)pend-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*(s)pn̥d-éh₁ye-ti
  8. Proto-Italic*pendējō
  9. Proto-Italic*pendēō
  10. Latinpendeō
  11. Latindependeō
  12. Old Frenchdependre
  13. Middle Englishdependen
  14. Englishdepend
  15. English todaydependable

From depend + -able.

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