recognizable

English

Alternative forms

• recognizeable, recognisable (UK), recogniseable (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-der.

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English cognize

English recognize

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Old French -ablebor.

Middle English -able

English -able

English recognizable

From recognize + -able.

Adjective

recognizable (comparative more recognizable, superlative most recognizable)

1. Able to be recognized.

   Antonym: unrecognizable

   • 2015 November 12, Bu Kerry Chan Laddaran, “Pidgin English now an official language of Hawaii”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Pidgin is a combination of expressions and phrases that are recognizable to those who speak it. To non-Pidgin speakers, it may sound like slang. For example, “dat” means that and “fadda” means father or dad.

   • 2018 August 21, U.S. Copyright Office Review Board, “Second Request for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register Vodafone Speechmark”, in United States Copyright Office‎^[2], page 4:

     This variation is strikingly similar to the Work’s so-called “ballooned droplet” within the circle. The figure in the Work is slightly more bulbous, but it is instantly recognizable as a quotation mark.

Derived terms

• irrecognizable
• nonrecognizable
• recognizability
• recognizableness
• recognizably

Translations

able to be recognized

• Bulgarian: разпознаваем (bg) (razpoznavaem)
• Czech: rozeznatelný (cs), rozpoznatelný
• Esperanto: rekonebla
• French: reconnaissable (fr)
• German: erkennbar (de)
• Greek: αναγνωρίσιμος (el) (anagnorísimos)
• Hungarian: felismerhető (hu)
• Ido: rikonocebla (io)
• Ingrian: tuttava
• Irish: so-aitheanta
• Italian: riconoscibile (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenkjennbar, gjenkjennelig

• Polish: rozpoznawalny (pl) m
• Slovak: rozpoznateľný
• Spanish: reconocible (es), recognoscible
• Swedish: igenkännlig (sv)
• Turkish: ayırt edilebilir, fark edilebilir