Translation
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from disponi, to have at one's disposal, plus -ebl-, the suffix of possibility, plus the adjective ending -a. Disponi came from French disposer, from Latin disponere, to set apart.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation, on a Latin root
- Root
- disponi + -ebl- + -a
- English cognates
- dispose, disposable
Examples
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Is the room available tomorrow?
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We only have two available places.
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The book is not available in our school.
Three pieces, all of them productive:
disponi (to have something at your disposal),
-- (capable of being) and -a (adjective). Literally, a
room is one that can be disposed of, and that is precisely what available
means once you stop hearing it as a single lump of English.
-- is worth the detour. It attaches to a transitive verb and produces the
passive possibility: visible, a legible or readable, a
edible, nekredebla unbelievable. Learn the suffix and you have not learned one
word but the whole shelf of English -able adjectives, without their spelling.
Do not confuse it with libera. A seat can be
(nobody is sitting in it) and a seat can be (you are
allowed to book it), and hotels sell the second. a is a near synonym
you will also meet, built the same way on .
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