capable

• adj.能力がある、有能である；才能がある

capの語源、握る、掴む。語源的にはaccept, captureと同じ。

capable

capable: [16] In common with a wide range of other English words, from capture to recuperate, capable comes from Latin capere ‘take’, a relative of English heave. An adjective derived from the verb was Latin capāx ‘able to hold much’, from which English gets capacious [17] and capacity [15]. From its stem capāci- was formed the late Latin adjective capābilis, also originally ‘able to contain things’.

This meaning still survived when the word passed, via French capable, into English (‘They are almost capable of a bushel of wheat’, Thomas Wright, The Passions of the Mind 1601), but by the end of the 18th century it had died out, having passed into the current ‘able to, susceptible of’.
=> capacious, capacity, capture, chase, heave, recuperate

capable (adj.)

1560s, from Middle French capable or directly from Late Latin capabilis "receptive; able to grasp or hold," used by theologians, from Latin capax "able to hold much, broad, wide, roomy;" also "receptive, fit for;" adjectival form of capere "to grasp, lay hold, take, catch; undertake; take in, hold; be large enough for; comprehend," from PIE *kap- "to grasp" (cognates: Sanskrit kapati "two handfuls;" Greek kaptein "to swallow, gulp down;" Lettish kampiu "seize;" Old Irish cacht "servant-girl," literally "captive;" Welsh caeth "captive, slave;" Gothic haban "have, hold;" Old English h?ft "handle," habban "to have, hold," Modern English have). Related: Capably.

1. I believe I am capable of calculating the political consequences accurately.

このことの政治的結果を正確に予想できると思います。

2.All dogs are capable of doing harm to human beings.

犬であればかみつく可能性がある。

3.She has an aged parent who 's capable of being very difficult.

彼女には年老いた父親がいるので、付き合いにくいかもしれません。

4.It is hard to imagine Lineker capable of anything so extreme.

ライアンクルがこのような極端なことをするとは考えにくい。

5.The larger firm was capable of providing a better range of services.

大手企業は、より良いサービスを提供することができます。