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.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender 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
  • 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)
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