comestibilis

Latin

Etymology

From comedō (“I eat up”) +‎ -bilis. The adjective was built using the perfect passive participle of comedō, which regularly is comēsum, but here appears in the variant comēstum.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔ.meːsˈtɪ.bɪ.lɪs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ko.mesˈt̪iː.bi.lis]

Adjective

comēstibilis (neuter comēstibile); third-declension two-termination adjective

(Late Latin) edible
Synonyms: edūlis, edibilis, ēsculentus

Descendants

→ Asturian: comestible
→ Catalan: comestible
→ English: comestible
→ French: comestible
→ Irish: comestible
→ Italian: commestibile
→ Ligurian: comestìbile
→ Occitan: comestible
→ Romanian: comestibil
→ Spanish: comestible

References

“comestibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
comestibilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.