potable
Any drinkable liquid; a beverageAny drinkable liquid; a beverage.
» The green water is not potable.
Зелёная вода непригодна для питья.
Зелёную воду нельзя пить.
Значение
значений: 1Any drinkable liquid; a beverage.
any liquid suitable for drinking
Примеры
предложений: 10The green water is not potable.
Зелёная вода непригодна для питья.
We had no potable water.
У нас не было питьевой воды.
Use only potable water when cooking.
Water from that river is not potable.
I had barely enough potable water for a week.
Происхождение
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English potable (“drinkable, potable”), from MidThe adjective is derived from Late Middle English potable (“drinkable, potable”), from Middle French, Old French potable (modern French potable (“drinkable, potable”)), and from its etymon Late Latin pōtābilis (“drinkable, potable”), from Latin pōtāre (“to drink”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon). Pōtāre is the present active infinitive of pōtō (“to drink”), from Proto-Italic *pōtos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“to drink”).
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