transmissible

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /trænsˈmɪsəbəl/ UK /trænzˈmɪsəbəl/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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adj
capable of being passed on, especially as a disease or trait

The infection is highly transmissible through close contact.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · capable of being passed on,... transmittablecommunicable contagious infectious heritableconveyable

Opposites

nontransmissibleincommunicable

Word family

Derived forms transmissibility

Related forms transmit transmission missile emit

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Phrases (1)

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genetically transmissible
capable of being passed from parents to offspring through genes

Adverb + adjective

Etymology

From transmit + -ible, after Latin trānsmittere ('to send across'), from trāns ('across') + mittere ('to send').

trānsmittere Latin trāns Latin mittere Latin

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# transmissible

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

## Meanings
1. capable of being passed on, especially as a disease or trait

## Examples
- The infection is highly transmissible through close contact.

## Synonyms
- transmittable
- communicable
- contagious
- infectious
- heritable
- conveyable

## Antonyms
- nontransmissible
- incommunicable

## Derived Forms
- transmissibility

## Related Forms
- transmit
- transmission
- missile
- emit

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: trānsmittere
- Root: trāns
- Root: mittere - to send

## Etymology
From transmit + -ible, after Latin trānsmittere ('to send across'), from trāns ('across') + mittere ('to send').

## AI Etymology
Transmissible comes from transmit + -ible, after Latin trānsmittere ('to send across'), from trāns ('across') + mittere ('to send'). The historical chain includes Latin trānsmittere, Latin trāns, and Latin mittere. The quoted older senses, "to send across", "across", and "to send", supply the semantic anchors for transmissible. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word transmissible carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "capable of being passed on, especially as a disease or trait". English derivatives include transmissibility; related English forms include transmit, transmission, missile, and emit. 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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