immobile

See also: Immobile

English

Etymology

From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

immobile (not comparable)

1. not mobile, not movable
2. fixed, unable to be moved

Synonyms

• fixed
• sessile (botany)
• unmovable

Antonyms

• mobile

Derived terms

• immobility
• immobilization
• immobilize

 

Translations

not mobile

• Armenian: անշարժ (hy) (anšarž)
• Belarusian: нерухо́мы (njeruxómy)
• Bulgarian: недви́жим (bg) (nedvížim), неподви́жен (bg) (nepodvížen)
• Catalan: immoble (ca), immòbil (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不動／不动 (zh) (bùdòng)

• Czech: nehybný
• Dutch: bewegingsloos (nl)
• Esperanto: senmova
• French: immobile (fr)
• Galician: inmóbil (gl)
• Georgian: უძრავი (uʒravi)
• German: unbeweglich (de), immobil (de)
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌸𐍃 (ungawagiþs)
• Greek: ακίνητος (el) (akínitos)
• Hungarian: mozdulatlan (hu)
• Italian: immobile (it)
• Japanese: 揺るぎない (ゆるぎない, yuruginai), 不動の (ja) (ふどうの, fudō no)
• Korean: 부동의 (ko) (budong'ui), 움직이지 않다 (umjigiji anta)
• Latin: immōbilis (la)
• Macedonian: неподвижен (nepodvižen)
• Manx: neuchorragh
• Maori: whakaroau
• Polish: nieruchomy (pl)
• Portuguese: imóvel (pt), imóbil
• Russian: неподви́жный (ru) (nepodvížnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: не̏покре̄тан

  Roman: nȅpokrētan (sh)

• Slovak: nehybný, imobilný
• Slovene: nepremičen
• Spanish: inmóvil (es)
• Ukrainian: нерухо́мий (neruxómyj)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis. Morphologically analyzable as im- +‎ mobile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mɔ.bil/

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Adjective

immobile (plural immobiles)

1. motionless, unmoving, still, stationary
2. immovable, immobile
3. invariable

Related terms

• immobilier
• immobilisation
• immobiliser
• immobilité

 

Further reading

• “immobile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

immobile

1. inflection of immobil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immōbilis (“immobile, immovable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imˈmɔ.bi.le/

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• Rhymes: -ɔbile
• Hyphenation: im‧mò‧bi‧le

Adjective

immobile (plural immobili)

1. still, motionless, stationary
2. immovable, immobile

Antonyms

• mobile

Derived terms

• immobilmente

Noun

immobile m (plural immobili)

1. real estate, immovable property, building, immovables

   Synonyms: bene immobile, proprietà, (building) edificio, casa, caseggiato, costruzione, palazzo, fabbricato

Related terms

• bene immobile
• immobiliare
• immobilismo
• immobilità
• immobilizzare

 

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /imˈmoː.bi.le/, [ɪmˈmoːbɪɫ̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /imˈmo.bi.le/, [imˈmɔːbile]

Adjective

immōbile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of immōbilis

References

• immobile 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)