Etymology

perceptible

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Today it means: Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned. Full definition →

Late Latin perceptibilis ← Latin percipio
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompercipio
  2. Late Latin · borrowed fromperceptibilis
  3. English todayperceptible

Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis, from Latin percipio.

Words from the same roots

Latinpercipio all →

perceivepercipiency

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.