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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis, from Latin percipio.
Pronunciation
Adjective
perceptible (comparative more perceptible, superlative most perceptible)
- Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
Her voice was barely perceptible over the noise, but her gestures made her meaning clear.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes. […] But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
Translations
able to be perceived
- Belarusian: адчува́льны (adčuválʹny), прыкме́тны (prykmjétny)
- Bulgarian: осеза́ем (bg) (osezáem)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 感覺得到的／感觉得到的 (gǎnjué dédào de)
- French: perceptible (fr)
- Galician: perceptíbel (gl) m or f
- German: wahrnehmbar (de), spürbar (de), fühlbar (de)
- Hungarian: megfogható (hu), felfogható (hu), érezhető (hu)
- Italian: percepibile (it)
- Japanese: 知覚できる (ja) (ちかくできる, chikaku dekiru)
- Latin: sēnsibilis
- Maori: māheahea (barely perceptible)
- Portuguese: percetível (Portugal), perceptível (pt) (Brazil)
- Russian: ощути́мый (ru) (oščutímyj), осяза́емый (ru) (osjazájemyj), заме́тный (ru) (zamétnyj)
- Sanskrit: गृह्य (sa) (gṛhya)
- Spanish: perceptible (es)
- Swedish: märkbar (sv), förnimbar (sv), möjlig att uppfatta
- Turkish: algılanabilir (tr)
- Ukrainian: відчу́тний (vidčútnyj), примі́тний (prymítnyj)
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Noun
perceptible (plural perceptibles)
- Anything that can be perceived.
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis (from Latin percipiō), equivalent to percebre + -ible.
Adjective
perceptible m or f (masculine and feminine plural perceptibles)
- perceptible
- Antonym: imperceptible
Derived terms
Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis (from Latin percipiō).
Pronunciation
Adjective
perceptible (plural perceptibles)
- perceptible
- Synonym: percevable
- Antonym: imperceptible
1876, M. Bouilly, Archives Générales de Médecine, page 464:A ce niveau, cibrations thoraciques faibles, mais perceptibles ; voix un peu éloignée, mais sans aucun timbre ægophonique.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis (from Latin percipiō).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /peɾθebˈtible/
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /peɾsebˈtible/
- Rhymes: -ible
- Syllabification: per‧cep‧ti‧ble
Adjective
perceptible m or f (masculine and feminine plural perceptibles)
- perceptible
Derived terms
Further reading