[1560–70; ‹ L expugnābilis, equiv. to expugnā(re) to take by storm (ex-ex-1 + pugnāre to fight) + -bilis-ble]This word is first recorded in the period 1560–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acute, bump, cylinder, sector, segment-ble is a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to”.Other words that use the affix -ble include: miserable, noble, predicable, probable, separable