Etymograph

English

conciliable

Conciliable comes from Latin concilium ‘council, meeting’, from calō ‘to call, announce solemnly, call out’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kelh₁-1‘to call out to’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kalō1‘to call’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalō1‘to call, announce solemnly, call out’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcilium1‘council, meeting’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconciliō2
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1645conciliable2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin concilio
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English conciliable
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1645, John Milton: “Nor doth hee put avvay adulterouſly vvho complaines of…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*kelh₁-Wiktionary, Latin concilio‘to call out to’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kalōWiktionary, Latin concilio‘to call’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcalōWiktionary, Latin concilio‘to call, announce solemnly, call out’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconciliumWiktionary, Latin concilio‘council, meeting’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconciliōWiktionary, English conciliable
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1645conciliableWiktionary, English conciliable. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1645, John Milton: “Nor doth hee put avvay adulterouſly vvho complaines of…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- ‘to call out to’

low, hell, clear, claim, classic, calendar, declare, claire, clarity, haul, clarification, classify, proclamation, clarinet, reclamation, exclamation, reconciliation, squeal, clarion, claret, clamor, clamour, clas, ecclesiastic, ecclesial, 36 more

through Latin calō ‘to call, announce solemnly, call out’

counsel, 10 more

through Latin conciliō

reconcile, irreconcilable, 5 more

Another origin of conciliable

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconcili(ā)
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEconciliābulum‘place of assembly’
  3. Englishtodayconciliable

Today it means

adj Capable of being conciliated or reconciled.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “conciliable”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin concilio. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- / conciliable

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