Plunderable
/ˈplʌn.dər.ə.bəl/noun
Able to be plundered or looted.
Did you know?The core word plunder entered English in the 1500s from Germanic wartime vocabulary, where it meant seizing goods by force, and the suffix -able turns that violence into a state of possibility.
Etymological Timeline
Middle English / Early Modern English
English
plunderable
“able to be plundered; fit for looting”
16th Century
English
plunder
“to seize goods by force; loot”
16th Century
German
plündern
“to pillage; loot”
Middle High German
MHG
plundern
“to strip, pillage, or loot”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*plundōną
“to pillage, strip bare”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*-able / -abel
“capable of, fit to be”
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