Where does “excusable” come from?

Excusable comes from Old French escusable, from Latin excusabilis, meaning "able to be excused."

excusable (English): possible to excuse

Definitions

  1. possible to excuse

Ancestry of “excusable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchescusable—
2Latinexcusabilisexcusable
3Latin-bilis-ble
4Proto-Italic-ðlisForms adjectives from verb stems indicating capacity or worth of being acted on
5Proto-Indo-European-dʰlis—
6Proto-Indo-European-dʰlomAlternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...

Words derived from “excusable”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom →Every word from Latin -bilis →Every word from Latin excusabilis →