variant or archaic spelling of 'edible'; fit or safe to eat.
From Latin 'edibilis' (from 'edere' meaning 'to eat') with the suffix '-ible' meaning 'capable of'; the standard modern spelling is 'edible' with an '-ble' ending.
The shift from 'edibile' to 'edible' shows how English spelling standardized in the 17th-18th centuries—printers and dictionaries gradually settled on one 'correct' version, eliminating older variants.
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