English
sortable
Sortable comes from Middle French sortable.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600sortable
- Englishearliest quotation 1603same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600sortable
- Englishearliest quotation 1603same form
Earliest quotation: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes […]: “If we must needs study, let us study something…”
Formed from sort + -able
Proto-Indo-European *ser- ‘to bind’
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Latin sors ‘lot’
Latin sortem
Old French sorte ‘class’
Middle English sort
English sort
Every English word from Middle French sortable
Today it means
adj That can be sorted.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French sortable / sortable