potable
a. 适于饮用的 n. 饮料
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Any drinkable liquid; a beverage.
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Good for drinking without fear of waterborne disease or poisoning.
可饮用的
正式potable water
The water from this river should not be considered potable without disinfection: you may be OK if you drink it raw, but you're gambling if you do so.
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The adjective is derived from Late Middle English potable (“drinkable, potable”), from Middle French, Old French potable (modern French potable (“drinkable, potable”)), and from its etymon Late Latin pōtābilis (“drinkable, potable”), from Latin pōtāre (“to drink”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon). Pōtāre is the present active infinitive of pōtō (“to drink”), from Proto-Italic *pōtos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“to drink”). The English word is cognate with Catalan potable, Italian potabile, Spanish potable. The noun is derived from the adjective.
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