mobilis

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.bi.lis/, [ˈmoːbɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.bi.lis/, [ˈmɔːbilis]

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
• →? Italian: mobile
• Occitan: mòble
• Portuguese: móvel
• Spanish: mueble
  • → Papiamentu: mueble
  • → Tagalog: muwebles

Borrowed:

• → Catalan: mòbil
• → Czech: mobil
• → Danish: mobil
• → Dutch: mobiel
• → English: mobile, mob
• → Finnish: mobile
• → French: mobile
• → Galician: móbil
• → German: mobil, Mobile
• → Hungarian: mobil, mobilis
• → Interlingua: mobile
• → Italian: mobilia
  • → Armenian: մոպիլյա (mopilya) — Constantinople
  • → Ottoman Turkish: موبیله (mobila)
  • → Turkish: mobilya
• → Northern Kurdish: mobîl
• → Lithuanian: mobilus
• → Norwegian: mobil
• → Polish: mobilny
• → Portuguese: móbil
• → Romanian: mobil, mobilă
• → Russian: мобильный (mobilʹnyj)
• → Spanish: móvil
• → Swedish: mobil

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be inconsistent, changeable: animo mobili esse (Fam. 5. 2. 10)