Printable

Part of speech: adjective

Pronunciation: /ˈprɪntəbl/

Definitions

1. Able to be produced on paper or displayed as text in a readable form
2. Capable of being output by a printer or shown as characters in written form
3. Describing something that can be physically printed or visually represented as readable text

Etymology: "Printable" is a plain formation: the noun "print" with the suffix "-able," meaning "capable of being." The suffix is the older part of the word. It came into English through Old French "-able," which descends from Latin "-ābilis" (itself built on "-bilis," meaning "able to be"). English adopted it as a productive ending and attached it to native and borrowed bases alike, so "print" plus "-able" yields a word meaning something that can be printed. The base "print" has a longer, more layered history. It descends from Middle English "emprinten," meaning to impress or stamp something into a surface, which came from Old French "empreindre," itself from Latin "imprimere" ("press into"). Over time the English verb was shortened to "print," and its sense narrowed from the general idea of pressing a mark into something toward the specific business of reproducing text and images on paper.

Synonyms: reproducible, publishable, copiable, duplicable, print-ready

Antonyms: unprintable, non-reproducible, non-duplicable, non-publishable, impractical