mollities

Latin

Alternative forms

• mollitia

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin mollis

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin -itia

Proto-Italic *-jēs

Latin -iēs

blend

Latin -itiēs

Latin mollitiēs

From mollis (“soft, pliant, weak”) + -itiēs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔlˈlɪ.ti.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [molˈlit.t͡si.es]

Noun

mollitiēs f (genitive mollitiēī); fifth declension

1. pliability, flexibility, suppleness
2. softness

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mollitiēs	mollitiēs
genitive	mollitiēī	mollitiērum
dative	mollitiēī	mollitiēbus
accusative	mollitiem	mollitiēs
ablative	mollitiē	mollitiēbus
vocative	mollitiēs	mollitiēs

Descendants

• Portuguese: molície
• Spanish: molicie, mollez

References

• "mollities", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “mollities”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)