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.bɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.bi.lis]

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.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	mōbilis	mōbile		mōbilēs	mōbilia
genitive	mōbilis			mōbilium
dative	mōbilī			mōbilibus
accusative	mōbilem	mōbile		mōbilīs mōbilēs	mōbilia
ablative	mōbilī			mōbilibus
vocative	mōbilis	mōbile		mōbilēs	mōbilia

Descendants

If truly inherited, most descendants seem to reflect *mŏbilis, with a shortened stem vowel.

• Italo-Romance:
  • >? Italian: mobile, muobile
• Gallo-Romance:
  • >? Catalan: moble
  • >? Occitan: mòble
  • >? Old French: meuble
    • French: meuble (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • >? Galician: moble
  • >? 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
• → Lithuanian: mobilus
• → Northern Kurdish: mobîl
• → 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)