By rebracketing of words such as amābilis (which comes from amāre, amō), where -ā- is part of the stem of a first conjugation verb. The word habilis (“proper, apt”) is sometimes incorrectly stated as being the origin of the suffix, but instead came from earlier *habibilis, from habeō + -ibilis, and was reduced by haplology.
-ābilis (neuter -ābile); third-declension two-termination suffix
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | -ābilis | -ābile | -ābilēs | -ābilia | |
Genitive | -ābilis | -ābilium | |||
Dative | -ābilī | -ābilibus | |||
Accusative | -ābilem | -ābile | -ābilēs -ābilīs |
-ābilia | |
Ablative | -ābilī | -ābilibus | |||
Vocative | -ābilis | -ābile | -ābilēs | -ābilia |