flexibilis

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin flexibilis (“flexible”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: fle‧xi‧bi‧lis
  • Rhymes: -iʃ

Adjective

flexibilis (comparative flexibilisebb, superlative legflexibilisebb)

  1. flexible (capable of being flexed or bent without breaking)
    Synonyms: hajlékony, hajlítható
  2. flexible (willing or prone to give way to the influence of others)
    Synonyms: alkalmazkodó, rugalmas, simulékony

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative flexibilis flexibilisek
accusative flexibiliset flexibiliseket
dative flexibilisnek flexibiliseknek
instrumental flexibilissel flexibilisekkel
causal-final flexibilisért flexibilisekért
translative flexibilissé flexibilisekké
terminative flexibilisig flexibilisekig
essive-formal flexibilisként flexibilisekként
essive-modal — —
inessive flexibilisben flexibilisekben
superessive flexibilisen flexibiliseken
adessive flexibilisnél flexibiliseknél
illative flexibilisbe flexibilisekbe
sublative flexibilisre flexibilisekre
allative flexibilishez flexibilisekhez
elative flexibilisből flexibilisekből
delative flexibilisről flexibilisekről
ablative flexibilistől flexibilisektől
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		flexibilisé flexibiliseké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		flexibiliséi flexibilisekéi

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • flexibilis in Ferenc Pusztai, editor, Magyar értelmező kéziszótár (ÉKsz.2), 2nd, expanded and revised edition, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003 (online searchable version under development).

Latin

Etymology

From flectō (“I bend, curve”) +‎ -bilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

flexibilis (neuter flexibile); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. flexible, pliant, able to be bent
  2. (of persons) tractable, pliant
  3. (of persons, derogatory) fickle, wavering, inconstant
  4. (grammar) inflectable

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative flexibilis flexibile flexibilēs flexibilia
genitive flexibilis flexibilium
dative flexibilī flexibilibus
accusative flexibilem flexibile flexibilēs
flexibilīs 		flexibilia
ablative flexibilī flexibilibus
vocative flexibilis flexibile flexibilēs flexibilia

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Descendants

References

  • “flexibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “flexibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flexibilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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