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Pronunciation
Verb
facilis
- past of facili
Latin
Etymology
From faciō (“do, make”) + -ilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
facilis (neuter facile, comparative facilior, superlative facillimus, adverb facile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- that may or can be done or made
- easy, facile
- Synonym: prōmptus
- Antonym: difficilis
- ready, quick, easily moving
- Synonyms: rapidus, celer, vēlōx, properus, levis, prōmptus
- Antonyms: lentus, tardus, sērus
- good-natured, agreeable
- courteous
- sociable, affable
- Synonyms: affābilis, amīcābilis, benevolēns
- Antonyms: inimīcus, hostīlis, īnfestus, īnfēnsus, oblīquus, adversus, dīversus, āversus, inīquus
- compliant, willing, yielding
- Synonyms: obsequēns, obsequiōsus, oboediēns
- Antonyms: sēditiōsus, tumultuōsus, turbulentus, obstinātus, difficilis
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
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References
- “făcĭlis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “facilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- facilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- facilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have an appreciative audience: populum facilem, aequum habere
- to be a ready, fluent speaker: facilem et expeditum esse ad dicendum (Brut. 48. 180)
- a sociable, affable disposition: facilitas, faciles mores (De Am. 3. 11)
- facilis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016