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-atile

Possibility, potential, or ability.

Latin ‑atilis.

This suffix generates adjectives. Common examples are versatile, able to adapt to many different circumstances, and volatile, of a substance that is easily evaporated, or a person liable to change rapidly and unpredictably. More specialist terms include pulsatile, pulsating or relating to pulsation, and saxatile, living or growing among rocks (Latin saxatilis, from saxum, rock or stone).

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