mobilis

Latin

Etymology

Through a Vulgar Latin form of *movibilis, from movere.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mōbilis m, f ‎(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			mōbilium
dative	mōbilī			mōbilibus
accusative	mōbilem	mōbile		mōbilēs	mōbilia
ablative	mōbilī			mōbilibus
vocative	mōbilis	mōbile		mōbilēs	mōbilia

Descendants

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

Estonian: mööbel English: mobile Finnish: mobile French: meuble, mobile Galician: 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 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 & 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 Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be inconsistent, changeable: animo mobili esse (Fam. 5. 2. 10)