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generable

[ jen-er-uh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. capable of being generated or produced.


generable

/ ˈdʒɛnərəbəl /

adjective

  1. able to be generated
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • gener·a·bili·ty gener·a·ble·ness noun
  • un·gener·a·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of generable1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin generābil ( is ) creative, productive, equivalent to gener ( āre ) to beget, produce ( gender 2 ) + -ābilis -able
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Word History and Origins

Origin of generable1

C15: from Late Latin generābilis, from Latin generāre to beget
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Example Sentences

It is also ungenerable; for, if generable, there will be a possibility that at some time or other it did not exist.

The world moreover was generable, and had been generated from the manifested energy of the Fire.

The Form or Essence in the first meaning, is neither generable nor destructible; in the second meaning it is both.

Those things which are destructible, are all of them generable and changeable (γεννητὰ καὶ ἀλλοιωτὰ πάντα).

The generable cosmos, therefore, was generated from the ingenerable Fire.

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