nameable

adj

Etymology

From name + -able.

  1. inherited from *h₁nómn̥ — “name
  2. inherited from *namô — “name
  3. inherited from *namō
  4. inherited from nama
  5. inherited from name
  6. suffixed as nameable — “name + able

Definitions

  1. Capable of being distinguished and named

    Capable of being distinguished and named; able to be called by a specific name.

    • Mr. Hyde […] gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation […]
  2. Worthy of being named or having a name

    Worthy of being named or having a name; significant; memorable (especially in negative expressions).

    • […] the culture [of alfalfa] is not very expensive, though the profit is not nameable till the second or third year, when the cuttings are considerable […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nameable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA