injectable

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English inject

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English injectable

From inject + -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛktəbəl/

Adjective

injectable (not comparable)

1. (pharmacy) Capable of being (or designed to be) injected.

Derived terms

• microinjectable
• noninjectable
• uninjectable

Translations

capable of being injected

• Catalan: injectable
• French: injectable (fr)
• Galician: inxectábel (gl), inxectable (gl)
• Portuguese: injetável
• Spanish: inyectable
• Swedish: injicerbar (sv)

Noun

injectable (plural injectables)

1. (pharmacy, cosmetics, pharmacology) A liquid, such as a medicine or a Botox solution, which is injected using a needle and syringe.
   • 2009 January 3, Amy Zipkin, “Drugstores, Too, Feel Recession Pain”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Complex high-cost drug therapy, such as injectables and infusions, are close to a $70 billion sector.

Translations

a drug which is designed to be injected

• Galician: inxectábel (gl) m, inxectable (gl) m
• Romanian: injectabil (ro) m
• Spanish: inyectable m

French

Etymology

From injecter +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ʒɛk.tabl/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Adjective

injectable (plural injectables)

1. injectable

Further reading

• “injectable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012