convertible
/kənˈvɜː(ɹ)təbəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As if, in truth, there were no God of Labour; as if godlike Labour and brutal Mammonism were convertible terms."
- "Seven months ago Prime Minister Ante Marković, a Croat, attacked Yugoslavia's 2,600 percent inflation rate by making the dinar convertible to Western currencies and lopping off four zeroes."
- "The Axis of the Earth is supposed to haue a convertible nature."
Etymology
From Old French convertible, from Late Latin convertibilis (“interchangeable”), from Latin convertere (“to turn back, to turn over, to turn around, to turn upside down”), from con- (“with, together”) + vertere (“to turn”), + -ibilis (“-ible: able to”). Equivalent to convert + -ible.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
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Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Religion.