os·ten·si·ble 
(ŏ-stĕnsə-bəl)
(ŏ-stĕnsə-bəl)adj.
Represented or appearing as such; ostensive: His ostensible purpose was charity, but his real goal was popularity.
[French, from Medieval Latin ostēnsibilis, from Latin ostēnsus, past participle of ostendere, to show : ob-, ob- + tendere, to stretch; see ten- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
os·tensi·bly adv.
- Indo-European root: plāk-
- Indo-European root: pneu-
- Indo-European root: porko-
- Indo-European root: poti-
- Indo-European root: prek-
- Indo-European root: preus-
- Indo-European root: prī-
- Indo-European root: pā-
- Indo-European root: pāl-
- Indo-European root: pē(i)-
- Indo-European root: pō(i)-
- Indo-European root: pū̆-
- Indo-European root: pəter-
- Indo-European root: re-
- Indo-European root: reg-
- Indo-European root: rei-
- Indo-European root: reidh-
- Indo-European root: reig-
- Indo-European root: rep-
- Indo-European root: ret-
- Indo-European root: reudh-
- Indo-European root: reug-
- Indo-European root: reup-
- Indo-European root: reuə-
- Indo-European root: rē-