ALIBLE

PRONUNCIATION: (AL-uh-buhl)

MEANING: adjective: Nutritious; nourishing.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin alere (to nourish). Ultimately from the Indo-European root al- (to grow or to nourish), which also gave us adolescent, adult, old, alumnus, altitude, enhance, coalesce, prolific, altricial, adolesce, hauteur, and palimony. Earliest documented use: 1653.
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FALIBLE - capable of making misstakes

ALIBLED - what happened when the boxer sustained a cut

ALL-BLÉ - nothing but locally-grown flour in our French bread