The corpus record — Latin

generabilis

generabilis · adj

that has the power of generating

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

gĕnĕrābĭlis — Lewis & Short

gĕnĕrābĭlis, e, adj.genero (postAug.).

I Act., that has the power of generating, generative, creative: hic est ille generabilis rerum naturae spiritus, Plin. 2, 45, 45, § 116.—

II Pass., that may be generated or produced: opus generabile, Manil. 1, 143.

In the wild

generabilis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.45.p2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.