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			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 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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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)