Other forms: convertibles
A convertible is a car whose roof folds away. Drive a convertible, a soft-top convertible, the convertible's roof.
Losing the roof costs the body most of its stiffness, so a convertible needs heavy reinforcement underneath and still weighs more than the same car with a lid. In finance a convertible is a bond that can be turned into shares. Note convert beneath it.
1nounconvertibleA car whose roof folds away.
“On sunny days, she drives her convertible with the roof down.”
convertible is a car.
Latin convertibilis comes from convertere, to turn around — con plus vertere, to turn.
Proto-Indo-European
*wert-
Latin
convertibilis — interchangeable
Old French
convertible
English, today
convertible
Built from
From Old French convertible, from Latin convertibilis (“interchangeable”), from Latin convertere (“to turn back, to turn over, to turn around, to turn upside down”), from con- (“with, together”) + vertere (“to turn”), + -ibilis (“-ible: able to”). Equivalent to convert + ible.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA