durable

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin dūrābilis (“lasting, permanent”), from dūrō (“harden, make hard”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd(j)ʊəɹəbəl/

durable (comparative more durable, superlative most durable)

1. Able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.

• permanent

• weak
• vulnerable
• transitory

durable (plural durables)

1. (economics) A durable thing, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
   • 1989, Robert A. Pollak, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 188:

     In a frictionless world with perfect rental markets, there is an unambiguous cost associated with the use of a durable for a single period.

• nondurable

• delubra

durable (epicene, plural durables)

1. durable (able to resist wear; enduring)

Borrowed from Latin dūrābilis. See durer and -able.

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durable (plural durables)

1. durable
2. sustainable

• durabilité
• durablement
• développement durable

• écologique, vert

• “durable” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin dūrābilis.

durable (plural durables)

1. durable

• duradero
• perdurable