flexibilis
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin flexibilis (“flexible”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈflɛksibiliʃ]
- Hyphenation: fle‧xi‧bi‧lis
- Rhymes: -iʃ
Adjective
flexibilis (comparative flexibilisebb, superlative legflexibilisebb)
- flexible (capable of being flexed or bent without breaking)
- Synonyms: hajlékony, hajlítható
- flexible (willing or prone to give way to the influence of others)
- Synonyms: alkalmazkodó, rugalmas, simulékony
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | flexibilis | flexibilisek |
| accusative | flexibiliset | flexibiliseket |
| dative | flexibilisnek | flexibiliseknek |
| instrumental | flexibilissel | flexibilisekkel |
| causal-final | flexibilisért | flexibilisekért |
| translative | flexibilissé | flexibilisekké |
| terminative | flexibilisig | flexibilisekig |
| essive-formal | flexibilisként | flexibilisekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | flexibilisben | flexibilisekben |
| superessive | flexibilisen | flexibiliseken |
| adessive | flexibilisnél | flexibiliseknél |
| illative | flexibilisbe | flexibilisekbe |
| sublative | flexibilisre | flexibilisekre |
| allative | flexibilishez | flexibilisekhez |
| elative | flexibilisből | flexibilisekből |
| delative | flexibilisről | flexibilisekről |
| ablative | flexibilistől | flexibilisektől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
flexibilisé | flexibiliseké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
flexibiliséi | flexibilisekéi |
Related terms
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading
- flexibilis in Ferenc Pusztai, editor, Magyar értelmező kéziszótár [A Concise Explanatory Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÉKsz.2), 2nd, expanded and revised edition, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003 (online searchable version under development).
Latin
Etymology
From flectō (“I bend, curve”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɫɛkˈsɪ.bɪ.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [fleɡˈziː.bi.lis]
Adjective
flexibilis (neuter flexibile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- flexible, pliant, able to be bent
- (of persons) tractable, pliant
- (of persons, derogatory) fickle, wavering, inconstant
- (grammar) inflectable
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | flexibilis | flexibile | flexibilēs | flexibilia | |
| genitive | flexibilis | flexibilium | |||
| dative | flexibilī | flexibilibus | |||
| accusative | flexibilem | flexibile | flexibilēs flexibilīs |
flexibilia | |
| ablative | flexibilī | flexibilibus | |||
| vocative | flexibilis | flexibile | flexibilēs | flexibilia | |
Synonyms
- (flexible): flexilis
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “grammar”): inflexibilis
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: flexible
- → Asturian: flexible
- → Catalan: flexible
- → French: flexible
- → Galician: flexible
- → German: flexibel
- → Hungarian: flexibilis
- → Italian: flessibile
- → Portuguese: flexível
- → Romanian: flexibil
- → Spanish: flexible
References
- “flexibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “flexibilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- flexibilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.