communicable

Etymology

From Old French communicable, Latin communicabilis.

adj

  1. (epidemiology, of a disease) Able to be transmitted between people or animals.
    (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)
  2. Readily communicated.
  3. Talkative or expansive.

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