mobilis

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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

• → 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: moble, → móbil
• → German: mobil, Mobile, Möbel
• → Hungarian: mobil, mobilis
• → Ido: moblo
• → Indonesian: mebel
• → Interlingua: mobile
• Italian: mobilia, → mobile
• → Northern 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: mueble, → móvil
• → 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)