transmissible

English

Etymology

From Latin trānsmissus +‎ -ible.[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

transmissible (comparative more transmissible, superlative most transmissible)

Able to be transmitted.
Synonym: transmittable
1. (medicine, of a disease) Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.
  Hypernym: infectious
  
  Synonyms: communicable, spreadable, catching (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)
  
  Antonyms: nontransmissible, noncommunicable
  
  Hyponym: contagious
2. (radio communications or broadcasting, of a message or program) Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.

Derived terms

Translations

able to be transmitted

Catalan: transmissible
Danish: overførbar
Dutch: overdraagbaar (nl)
Galician: transmisible (gl), transmisíbel (gl)
Hungarian: átadható (hu)
Italian: trasmissibile (it)
Manx: so-chur
Norwegian:
Bokmål: overførbar

Nynorsk: overførbar
Portuguese: transmissível (pt)
Romanian: transmisibil (ro)
Spanish: transmisible

contagious

Danish: overførbar
Dutch: overdraagbaar (nl)
Finnish: tarttuva (fi)
French: transmissible (fr)
Hungarian: fertőző (hu)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: overførbar

Nynorsk: overførbar
Polish: zaraźliwy (pl)
Romanian: transmisibil (ro), contagios (ro)

References

“transmissible”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

French

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Adjective

transmissible (plural transmissibles)

transmissible, transmittable

Derived terms

maladie sexuellement transmissible

Further reading

“transmissible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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