aestimabile

Aestimabile is a Latin adjective formed from aestimo, meaning to value or esteem, with the suffix -abilis. The word translates roughly as estimable or worthy of esteem. In Latin, the usual masculine and feminine form is aestimabilis, while the neuter singular is aestimabile. The form aestimabile is therefore the neuter singular, used when describing a thing rather than a person, in accordance with Latin grammar.

Usage in Latin texts is chiefly literary, philosophical, or legal, where aestimabile can describe merit, worth, or value. It can function attributively before a noun or predicatively with esse (e.g., res aestimabile, something estimable). The term appears in post-classical and medieval Latin as well, often in contexts that discuss virtue, merit, or value.

In the Romance language family, the direct descendant of this Latin term is typically realized as estimabile or estimable in various forms. In Italian, the standard word is estimabile; aestimabile is uncommon and generally considered archaic or learned, retaining only scholarly or textual uses. When contemporary Italian speakers seek to convey the same sense, they would most often use stimabile or pregevole, depending on nuance and context.

Summary: aestimabile is the neuter singular Latin form of aestimabilis, meaning estimable or worthy of esteem. It illustrates how a value-oriented predicate associated with esteem or merit has circulated from Latin into later Romance languages and into scholarly Latin usage, where it remains mostly in historical or philological contexts.