potable

From Middle English potable, from Old French potable, from Latin pōtābilis, from pōtō (“I drink”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊ.tə.b(ə)l/, /ˈpɒt.ə.b(ə)l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊ.tə.b(ə)l/, /ˈpɑt.ə.b(ə)l/

potable (comparative more potable, superlative most potable)

1. Good for drinking without fear of poisoning or disease.

• (good for drinking): drinkable, drinkworthy

• edible, eatable, eatworthy, comestible

• potable gold

potable (plural potables)

1. Any drinkable liquid; a beverage.
   • John Philips

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

• pottable

• optable

potable (epicene, plural potables)

1. potable (good for drinking)

From Latin pōtābilis.

potable (masculine and feminine plural potables)

1. potable

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

From Late Latin potabilis (verb: potare "to drink").

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.tabl/

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potable (plural potables)

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

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

Borrowed from Old French potable, from Latin pōtābilis.

• IPA^(key): /pɔˈtaːbəl/, /pɔːˈtaːbəl/

potable (rare, Late Middle English)

1. Suitable for drinking; potable.

• English: potable

• “pō̆tāble (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-22.

From Latin pōtābilis.

potable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular potable)

1. potable

From Latin pōtābilis.

• IPA^(key): /poˈtable/, [poˈt̪aβle]

potable (plural potables)

1. potable

• agua potable

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