mobilis

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Latin

Etymology

    From moveō +‎ -bilis. Developed from *moubilis, from Proto-Italic *moweðlis, with the diphthong ou monophthongizing to long ō.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    mōbilis (neuter mōbile, comparative mōbilior, adverb mōbiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

    1. movable, loose
    2. pliant, flexible
    3. fickle, inconstant

    Declension

    Third-declension two-termination adjective.

    singular plural
    masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
    nominative mōbilis mōbile mōbilēs mōbilia
    genitive mōbilis mōbilium
    dative mōbilī mōbilibus
    accusative mōbilem mōbile mōbilēs
    mōbilīs
    mōbilia
    ablative mōbilī mōbilibus
    vocative mōbilis mōbile mōbilēs mōbilia

    Descendants

    Inherited:

    • Catalan: moble
    • Old French: meuble
      • French: meuble (see there for further descendants)
    • Galician: moble
    • ? Italian: mobile
    • Occitan: mòble
    • Portuguese: móvel
    • Spanish: mueble

    Borrowed:

    References

    • mobilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • mobilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • mobilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to be inconsistent, changeable: animo mobili esse (Fam. 5. 2. 10)