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Where does “visible” come from?

visible (Old French) comes from Latin vīsibilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...

visible (Old French): visible

Definitions

  1. visible

Ancestry of “visible”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinvīsibilis—
2Latin-bilis-ble
3Proto-Italic-ðlis—
4Proto-Indo-European-dʰlis—
5Proto-Indo-European-dʰlomAlternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...

Words derived from “visible”

  • visible
  • visibly
  • nonvisible
  • hypervisible
  • intervisible
  • visibleness
  • subvisible
  • unvisible
  • infravisible
  • nonintervisible
  • unvisibly
  • visible
  • visibliément
  • visibl'ye
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