mobilis
Latin
Etymology
From moveō + -bilis. Developed from *moubilis, with the diphthong ou monophthongizing to long ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) 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
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: móbil, moble
- German: mobil, Mobile, Möbel
- Ido: moblo
- Indonesian: mebel
- Interlingua: mobile
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)
- to be inconsistent, changeable: animo mobili esse (Fam. 5. 2. 10)