irritable
English
/ˈɪɹɪtəbl/
adj
Definitions
- Capable of being irritated.
- Easily exasperated or excited.
- (medicine) Responsive to stimuli.
Etymology
Borrowed from French irritable derived from Latin irritabilis.
Origin
Latin
irritabilis
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hyperirritable English
- inirritable English
- irritableness English
- irritably English
- unirritable English
- irritabilis Latin
- irrītābilis Latin
- irrītō Latin
- irritabilité French
- irritable French
- irritable Spanish, Castilian
- irritablemente Spanish, Castilian
- irritabel Norwegian Bokmål
- irritabel Norwegian Nynorsk
- iritabil Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan