honorable

• honble (obsolete)
• honourable

From Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin honōrābilis, from honōrō (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. Synchronically analyzable as honor +‎ -able.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ŏnʹərəbl, ŏnʹrəbl, IPA^(key): /ˈɒnəɹəbl̩/, /ˈɒnɹəbl̩/
• (General American) enPR: ŏnʹərəbl, ŏnʹrəbl, IPA^(key): /ˈɑnəɹəbl̩/, /ˈɑnɹəbl̩/

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• Hyphenation: hon‧or‧able, honor‧able

honorable (comparative more honorable, superlative most honorable)

1. (American spelling) Worthy of respect; respectable.
2. (Commonwealth of Nations, politics) Misspelling of honourable.

• venerable
• noble

• despicable
• contemptible
• mean

From Latin honōrābilis.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /o.noˈɾa.blə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /u.nuˈɾa.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /o.noˈɾa.ble/

honorable (masculine and feminine plural honorables)

1. honorable

• honorablement

• “honorable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “honorable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “honorable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “honorable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old French [Term?], borrowed from Latin honōrābilis.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.nɔ.ʁabl/

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honorable (plural honorables)

1. honorable

• honneur

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

• honorábel

From Latin honōrābilis.

honorable m or f (plural honorables)

1. honorable

• honor
• honra

• “honorable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Borrowed from Latin honōrābilis. Equivalent to honor +‎ -able.

• IPA^(key): /onoˈɾable/, [onoˈɾaβle]

honorable (plural honorables)

1. honorable

• honorablemente

• honor
• honra
• honrar

• “honorable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.