purchasable

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈpɝtʃəsəbl/ UK /ˈpɜːtʃəsəbl/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
able to be bought

Every ticket is purchasable online in advance.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · able to be bought buyableavailable obtainablemarketableprocurable

Opposites

unpurchasablepriceless

Word family

Derived forms purchasability

Related forms purchase purchaser purchasing

Etymology

From purchase + -able; purchase comes from Anglo-French purchaser, Old French porchacier ('to seek to obtain'), from por- ('forth') + chacier ('to chase').

porchacier Old French pro Middle English captiare Latin

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Topics

Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# purchasable

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈpɝtʃəsəbl/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈpɜːtʃəsəbl/

## Meanings
1. able to be bought

## Examples
- Every ticket is purchasable online in advance.

## Synonyms
- buyable
- available
- obtainable
- marketable
- procurable

## Antonyms
- unpurchasable
- priceless

## Derived Forms
- purchasability

## Related Forms
- purchase
- purchaser
- purchasing

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: porchacier
- Root: pro
- Root: captiare

## Etymology
From purchase + -able; purchase comes from Anglo-French purchaser, Old French porchacier ('to seek to obtain'), from por- ('forth') + chacier ('to chase').

## AI Etymology
Purchasable comes from purchase + -able; purchase comes from Anglo-French purchaser, Old French porchacier ('to seek to obtain'), from por- ('forth') + chacier ('to chase'). The historical chain includes Old French porchacier, Latin pro, and Latin captiare. The quoted older senses, "to seek to obtain", "forth", and "to chase", supply the semantic anchors for purchasable. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word purchasable carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "able to be bought". English derivatives include purchasability; related English forms include purchase, purchaser, and purchasing. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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