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語源

From Late Latin reperibilis (“findable, discoverable”), from Latin reperīre (“to find, discover, invent”), from re- (“again, anew”) + parere (“to bear, to get”), + -ible (“-able”). Cognate with reperition, repertible.

形容詞

reperible (comparative more reperible, superlative most reperible)

1. (まれに, obsolete) Synonym of findable: able to be found.
   • a. 1475, John Trevisa translating Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, Vol. II, p. 189:

     The poete Varro rehersethe that nature hathe infuded in to the eien of somme men venom, so that þer is noone ylle thynge but hit is reperible in man.

   • 1875 April, Friederich Gryzanowski, "Comtism" in North American Review, Vol. CXX, No. 247, p. 275:

     If we now wish to verify these laws by theoretical deduction, we must seek a theoretical unit, and such a unit we find not in the average man, but in what all men have in common. We must strip them of their national, local, and personal distinctions, of all, in short, that is not reperible in every one of them, and we thus obtain, as our social molecule, an ideal being which we might call a human animal.

参照

• “† reperible, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.