text: # peaceable
  
  ## Anglais
  
  ### Étymologie
  
      (XIVᵉ siècle) De l’anglo-normand pesible, peisible, issu du moyen français paisible, dérivé de pais (« paix ») avec le suffixe -ible ; plus tard remodelé à partir de peace et du suffixe -able.
  
  ### Adjectif
  
  peaceable \ˈpiː.sə.b(ə)l\
  
  * Pacifique.
     * But in the Muslim world we are dealing with regimes who have banished, imprisoned, silenced or neutralised all opposition, even where this is entirely peaceable. — (Faisal Bodi, The Guardian, 29 décembre 1999)
     * But if you talk to people here privately, they suggest there are three possible scenarios. The first (intended to sound incredible) is that Israel’s biggest neighbour will be transformed into a peaceable, pluralist democracy. — (‘Feeling understandably twitchy’, The Economist, 8 février 2011)
  * Paisible, tranquille.
     * Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head [...]. — (James Joyce, Ulysses, épisode 16, 1922)
  
  **Dérivés**
  
  * peaceability
  * peaceableness
  * peaceably
  
  ### Prononciation
  
  * (Royaume-Uni) : \ˈpiː.sə.b(ə)l\
  