Comestible
/kəˈmɛs.tə.bəl/noun
Fit to be eaten; edible.
Did you know?It comes from Latin comestibilis, built from com- (‘together/intensely’) + edere (‘to eat’), the same ancient eating-root behind words like edible and edible-sounding scientific terms.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*h1ed-
“to eat”
Latin
Latin
edere
“to eat”
Late Latin
Latin
comestibilis
“fit for eating; edible”
Middle French
Old French
comestible
“edible; fit to be eaten”
14th–15th Century
English
comestible
“fit to be eaten; edible”
Modern English
English
comestible
“fit to be eaten; edible”
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