Accessible means easy to reach, to enter or to understand. Wheelchair accessible, an accessible style, accessible by road.
The third sense is now the commonest in reviews, where an accessible book is one that does not demand special knowledge. In building it has become a legal term with measurable standards behind it.
1adjectiveaccessibleEasy to reach, to enter or to understand.
“The cottage is accessible only by a track that floods each winter.”
accessible is a quality.
Latin accessibilis comes from accedere, to approach, from ad plus cedere, to go.
Latin
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English, today
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First attested in 1400, from French -, from Latin accessibilis, from accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach”), equivalent to access + ible.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA