combinable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English combine

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English combinable

From combine + -able.

Adjective

combinable (comparative more combinable, superlative most combinable)

1. Able to be combined.

   Synonyms: mergeable, unitable

   Antonyms: divisible, separable

   • 1922, Aristotle [in translation], De Caelo:

     For instance, liquids are the most 'combinable' of all bodies — because, of all divisible materials, the liquid is most readily adaptable in shape, unless it be viscous.

   • 2022 June 1, Elena Simperl, Roberta Cuel, Martin Stein, Incentive-Centric Semantic Web Application Engineering, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 86:

     Candidate tasks cannot be too difficult or too easy, but they have to be divisible or combinable, so that they can be broken down into smaller chunks that can be solved independently by a potentially large group of contributors.

Derived terms

• incombinable
• uncombinable

Related terms

• combinability
• combinableness
• combinably
• combine
• compatible

Translations

able to be combined

• Dutch: combineerbaar (nl)
• Finnish: yhdisteltävä
• French: combinable (fr)
• German: vereinbar (de), kombinierbar (de)
• Greek: συνδυάσιμος (syndyásimos)
• Ido: kombinebla (io)
• Japanese: 結合できる (ja) (けつごうできる, ketsugō dekiru), 合併できる (ja) (がっぺいできる, gappei dekiru), 合わせられる (ja) (あわせられる, awaserareru), 可合の (かごうの, kagō no)
• Russian: объединя́емый (ru) (obʺjedinjájemyj), комбини́руемый (ru) (kombinírujemyj)
• Spanish: combinable

References

• “combinable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

combinable (plural combinables)

1. combinable

Further reading

• “combinable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kombiˈnable/ [kõm.biˈna.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: com‧bi‧na‧ble

Adjective

combinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural combinables)

1. combinable

Further reading

• “combinable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025