mobilis

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.bi.lis/, [ˈmoː.bɪ.lɪs]

Adjective

mōbilis (neuter mōbile); third declension

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	mōbilis	mōbile		mōbilēs	mōbilia
Genitive	mōbilis	mōbilis		mōbilium	mōbilium
Dative	mōbilī	mōbilī		mōbilibus	mōbilibus
Accusative	mōbilem	mōbile		mōbilēs, mōbilīs	mōbilia
Ablative	mōbilī	mōbilī		mōbilibus	mōbilibus
Vocative	mōbilis	mōbile		mōbilēs	mōbilia

Descendants

• Afrikaans: meubel
• Azerbaijani: mebel
• Bulgarian: мебел (mebel)
• Catalan: moble, mòbil
• Crimean Tatar: mebel
• Czech: mobil
• Danish: mobil, møbel
• Dutch: meubel, mobiel
• Esperanto: meblo

• Estonian: mööbel
• English: mobile, mob
• Finnish: mobile
• French: meuble, mobile
• Galician: móbil, moble
• German: mobil, Mobile, Möbel
• Ido: moblo
• Indonesian: mebel
• Interlingua: mobile

• Italian: mobile, mobilia
• Kurdish: mobîl
• Latvian: mēbele
• Lithuanian: mobilus
• Macedonian: мебел (mebel)
• Norwegian: mobil, møbel
• Occitan: mòble
• Ossetian: мебель (mebelʹ)
• Papiamentu: mueble
• Persian: مبل‎

• Polish: mebel, mobilny
• Portuguese: móvel, móbil
• Romanian: mobil, mobilă
• Russian: мебель (mebelʹ), мобильный (mobilʹnyj)
• Spanish: móvil, mueble
• Swedish: mobil, möbel
• Tagalog: muwebles
• Turkish: mobilya, möble
• Ukrainian: меблі (mebli)

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)