hábil

Learned borrowing from Latin habilis (“suitable, skillful”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -abil, (Brazil) -abiw
• Hyphenation: há‧bil

hábil m or f (plural hábeis)

1. skilled
2. deft, skillful

• “hábil”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From Latin habilis (“suitable, skillful”). Cognate with English able.

• IPA^(key): /ˈabil/ [ˈa.β̞il]
• Rhymes: -abil
• Syllabification: há‧bil

hábil m or f (masculine and feminine plural hábiles, superlative habilísimo)

1. able, capable

   Synonym: capaz

2. deft, skillful

   Synonyms: diestro, mañoso

3. suitable, adequate

   Synonyms: apropiado, indicado, adecuado

• “hábil”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28