(adjective) : tŏlĕrābĭlis, e, tolero.
* Pass., that may be borne, bearable, supportable, endurable, passable, tolerable (class.): amicitiae si tolerabiles erunt, ferendae sunt,Cic. Lael. 21, 78: tolerabilis conditio servitutis,id. Cat. 4, 8, 16: genus rei publicae,id. Rep. 1, 26, 42: fenus,id. Att. 6, 1, 16: hoc utcumque tolerabile: gravius illud quod, etc.,Plin. Ep. 5, 5, 2: regi tolerabili, aut, si vultis, etiam amabili,Cic. Rep. 1, 28, 44; cf. orator,id. Brut. 48, 178: oratores,id. de Or. 1, 2, 8: Minucius jam ante vix tolerabilis,Liv. 22, 27, 1: non tolerabile numen,Verg. A. 5, 768: habitus,Val. Max. 4, 1, 1.—Comp.: senectus,Cic. Sen. 3, 8: tolerabilius est sic dicere, etc.,id. de Or. 1, 50, 218.—Sup.: sententia,Dig. 28, 5, 18.
* Act., that can easily bear or endure, enduring, sustaining, supporting (rare; not in Cic.; but cf. tolerabiliter, 2.): homo,Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 31: quas (oves) ille tempore auctumni ratus adhuc esse tolerabiles,i. e. able to support the winter,Col. 7, 3, 14.—Adv.: tŏlĕrābĭ-lĭter.
* Bearably, passably, tolerably: facere aliquid,Col. 11, 2, 85: dicere,id. 2, 2, 3: dare veratrum,Cels. 2, 13.
* For toleranter, patiently: etenim si dolores eosdem tolerabilius patiuntur,Cic. Fin. 3, 13, 42; so, tolerabilius ferre igniculum desiderii,id. Fam. 15, 20, 2.