commiserable
pitiable
Adjective
- pitiable
- the Guiltineſſe of Bloud, of many Commiſerable Perſons. - 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Plantations”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 204:
Origin
Formed as commiser-, the present active indicative stem of the Latin commiseror (whence commiserate) + English -able. Compare miserable.