estable

From Latin stabilis.

estable (epicene, plural estables)

1. stable

• inestable

• estabilidá
• establecer
• establecimientu
• estar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈtab.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [esˈta.ble]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

Borrowed from Latin stabilis.

estable m or f (masculine and feminine plural estables)

1. stable

   Antonym: inestable

• establement
• inestable
• unió estable de parella

• establir
• estabilitat

Inherited from Latin stab(u)lum. Cf. the feminine doublet establa.

estable m (plural estables)

1. stable (building)

   Synonym: quadra

• establa
• establar

• “estable”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “estable”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “estable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “estable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• estábel

Attestted since the 13th century (estavil, estabil, estabele). From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin stabilis.

• IPA^(key): [es.ˈta.βlɪ]

estable m or f (plural estables)

1. stable

   Antonym: inestable

   • 1266, A. Rodríguez González, J. A. Rey Caiña, editors, Tumbo de Lorenzana. Transcripción y estudio, Estudios Mindonienses, 8, page 173:

     esta carta uos mandamus fazer firme et estauil por sempre iamays

     this charter we command you to make firm and stable forevermore

• establemente

• estabilidade

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “estabel”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “estau”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estable”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “estable”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estable”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old French estable.

estable f (plural estables)

1. stable (place for keeping animals)

• French: étable

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

From Old Occitan estable, from Latin stabilis.

estable m (feminine singular establa, masculine plural estables, feminine plural establas)

1. stable

   Antonym: inestable

• estabilitat
• estabilizar
• inestable

From Latin stab(u)lum.

estable m (plural estables)

1. stable (building)

• stable (Anglo-Norman)

From Latin stab(u)la pl.

estable oblique singular, f (oblique plural estables, nominative singular estable, nominative plural estables)

1. stable (place for keeping animals)

• establer

• Middle French: estable
  • French: étable
• Walloon: ståve
• → Middle English: stable, stabel, stabele, stabil, stabille, stabul, stabulle
  • English: stable
  • Scots: stable
  • → Middle Irish: stábla
    • Irish: stábla
    • Scottish Gaelic: stàball

From Latin stabilis, probably borrowed.

estable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular estable)

1. stable (relatively unchanging)

• establir
• estabilité

• Anglo-Norman: stable, stabel
  • → Middle English: stable
    • English: stable
    • Scots: stable

• IPA^(key): /esˈtable/ [esˈt̪a.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: es‧ta‧ble

Inherited from Old Spanish estabile, from Latin stabilis. Morphologically equivalent to estar +‎ -able.

estable m or f (masculine and feminine plural estables)

1. stable

   Synonym: asentado

   Antonym: inestable

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

estable

1. inflection of establir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “estable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024