[1600–10; ‹ L fatīgābilis, equiv. to fatīgā(re) to tire + -bilis-ble]This word is first recorded in the period 1600–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: adaptation, cadet, operate, setup, syndicate-ble is a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to”.Other words that use the affix -ble include: feeble, predicable, probable, separable, sociable