[1605–15; associ(ate) + -able]This word is first recorded in the period 1605–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: crater, displacement, ferrule, series, surface-able is a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,”associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin (laudable); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition tostems of any origin (teachable; photographable)
Examples of 'associable' in a sentence
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The results indicate that the main procurement territory was 16 km2 in area, associable with a forager radius.
María Soto 2016, 'Procurement and mobility during the Late Pleistocene: Characterising the stone-toolassemblage of the Picamoixons site (Tarragona, NE Iberian Peninsula)', Journal of Lithic Studieshttp://journals.ed.ac.uk/lithicstudies/article/view/1782. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)