amenable

Etymology

From French as if *amenable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”), from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).

adj

1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
2. Willing to comply; easily led.
   The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity. August 4, 2020, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine
3. Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
4. (law) Liable to the legal authority of (something).
   decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities
5. (mathematics, of a group) Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.