English
pacable
Pacable comes from Latin pacare.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpacare
- Englishearliest quotation 1839pacable
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpacare
- Englishearliest quotation 1839pacable
Earliest quotation: 1839, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Reasonable men are easily satisfied: would they were as…”
Formed from -able
Linked words
through Latin pacare
Today it means
adj Able to be easily pacified.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin pacare / pacable