pasable

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.

Proto-Italic *pattus

Latin passus

Proto-Italic *-āzi

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Latin -ereinflu.

Latin -āre

Vulgar Latin *passāre

Old Spanish passar

Spanish pasar

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old Spanish -abile

Spanish -able

Spanish pasable

From pasar + -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈsable/ [paˈsa.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: pa‧sa‧ble

Adjective

pasable m or f (masculine and feminine plural pasables)

1. passable, tolerable
   • 2016 December 15, “A Patti Smith no le salían las palabras en los Nobel”, in El Periódico‎^[1]:

     El primer verso fue pasable, un poco inestable, pero estaba segura de que me calmaría -rememora sobre los primeros acordes del tema-.

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Derived terms

• pasablemente

Further reading

• “pasable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025