comestible : ediable

comestible : ediable

(hear the word here:)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/audio.php?file=comest01&word=comestible

examples:

The November issue of the magazine was filled with recipes for an old-fashioned Thanksgiving feast, including candied yams, homemade cranberry sauce, mincemeat pie, and othercomestible delights.

"This year's delegates (that's what people who attend the Oct. 25-29 [culinary] festival are called) will find a focus oncomestible diversity across regions…." — From an article by Jamila Robinson in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 30, 2012

OTHER LANGUGES:

COMESTIBILIS

φαγώσιμος

yenilebilir

ushqim

eetbare

খাদ্যদ্রব্য

ăn được

хранителни продукти

Nahrungsmittel

קאָמעסטיבלע

ખાદ્ય પદાર્થો

spiseligt

דברים ראויים למאכל

toiduainete

食べ物

panganan

commestibile

馔 ( 饌 )

먹을 수있는

zaliha hrane

pārtikas vielas

ядомы

Maisto medžiagos

panganan

kommestibbli

eetwaren

ehető

їстівний

خوردنی

spożywczy

comestível

comestibil

съедобный

залиха хране

jedlý

prehrambne

matvara

yenilebilir

jedlý

maaaring kainin

elintarviketuotteiden

खाद्य

did you know ... ?

Did you expect "comestible" to be a noun meaning "food"? You're probably not alone. As it happens, "comestible" is used both as an adjective and a noun. The adjective is by far the older of the two; it has been part of English since at least the 1400s. (In fact, one of its earliest known uses was in a text printed in 1483 by William Caxton, the man who established England's first printing press.) The noun (which is most often used in the plural form, "comestibles") dates only from 1837. It made its first appearance in a novel in which a character fortified himself with "a strong reinforcement of comestibles."