c. 1300, "patient, long-suffering;" mid-14c., "allowed, permissible;" late 14c., "able to be endured;" from Anglo-French, Old French sofrable "tolerable, acceptable; able to bear or endure," from Medieval Latin sufferabilis; see suffer + -able. Related: Sufferably.
sufferable punishment
suede
suet
Suez
suf-
suffer
sufferable
sufferance
suffering
suffice
sufficiency
sufficient