"evitable" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈɛvɪtəb(ə)l/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɛvɪtəb(ə)l/ [General-American], /-ɾə-/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-evitable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more evitable [comparative], most evitable [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle French evitable (modern French évitable), from Latin ēvītābilis (“avoidable”), from ēvītō (“to avoid”) + -bilis (“-able”, suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’). Ēvītō is derived from ē- (“prefix meaning ‘out’”) + vītō (“to avoid, evade; to shun”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dwidʰeh₁- (“separate, set apart”), a compound of *dwi- (“two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put”)). Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|evitable}} Middle French evitable, {{cog|fr|évitable}} French évitable, {{der|en|la|ēvītābilis||avoidable}} Latin ēvītābilis (“avoidable”), {{m|la|ēvītō||to avoid}} ēvītō (“to avoid”), {{m|la|-bilis||-able|pos=suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’}} -bilis (“-able”, suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’), {{m|la|ē-||prefix meaning ‘out’}} ē- (“prefix meaning ‘out’”), {{m|la|vītō||to avoid, evade; to shun}} vītō (“to avoid, evade; to shun”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*dwidʰeh₁-||separate, set apart}} Proto-Indo-European *dwidʰeh₁- (“separate, set apart”), {{m|ine-pro|*dwi-||two}} *dwi- (“two”), {{m|ine-pro|*dʰeh₁-||to put}} *dʰeh₁- (“to put”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} evitable (comparative more evitable, superlative most evitable)
  1. (uncommon) Possible to avoid; avertible. Tags: uncommon Synonyms: avoidable, avertable, escapable, preventable, resistible Derived forms: evitability, evitably, inevitability, inevitable, inevitableness Translations (possible to avoid): evitable [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), vyhnutelný [masculine] (Czech), evitebla (Esperanto), évitable (French), evitable [feminine, masculine] (Galician), evitábel [feminine, masculine] (Galician), evitabile [feminine, masculine] (Italian), ēvītābilis [neuter] (Latin), evitável [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), evitable (Spanish)

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      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "possible to avoid",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "evitable"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "possible to avoid",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "evitábel"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "possible to avoid",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "evitabile"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "possible to avoid",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ēvītābilis"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "possible to avoid",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "evitável"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "possible to avoid",
      "word": "evitable"
    }
  ],
  "word": "evitable"
}

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