amenable

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman amenable, amesnable, from amener (“to bring or lead, fetch in or to”) + -able (“-able”); amener is in turn from a- + mener (“to lead, conduct”), from Late Latin mināre (“to drive”), Latin deponent minārī (“to threaten, menace”).

1. Willing to respond to persuasion or suggestions.
2. Willing to comply; easily led.

   “The communal nature of ostriches may have made these birds more amenable to life in captivity.”

3. Liable to be brought to account, to a charge or claim; responsible; accountable; answerable.
4. Liable to the legal authority of (something).

   “Decisions of the Boards of Appeal are amenable to actions before the Court of Justice of the European Communities.”

5. Being a locally compact topological group carrying a kind of averaging operation on bounded functions that is invariant under translation by group elements.