1590s, from Late Latin edibilis "eatable," from Latin edere "to eat," from PIE root *ed- "to eat" (cognates: Sanskrit admi "I eat;" Greek edo "I eat;" Lithuanian edu "I eat;" Hittite edmi "I eat," adanna "food;" Old Irish ithim "I eat;" Gothic itan, Old Swedish and Old English etan, Old High German essan "to eat;"
Avestan ad- "to eat;" Armenian utem "I eat;" Old Church Slavonic jasti "to eat," Russian jest "to eat").
例文
1. The food at the hotel was barely edible .
このホテルの食べ物は口に入ることができません。
2. Edible wild herbs keptus from dying of starvation.
私たちは野菜に頼って飢え死にしなかった。
3.This kind of mushroom is edible ，but that kind is not.
このキノコは食べられて、それは食べてはいけません。
＜dl>＜dt＞4.Take some edible food when you go there.
そこに行くときに食べ物を持ってきてください。
5.Peel off the blackened skin，flatten the pepper out and trim it into edible pieces.