mobilis
Latin
Etymology
From moveō + -bilis. Developed from *moubilis, from Proto-Italic *moweðlis, with the diphthong ou monophthongizing to long ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmoː.bɪ.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɔː.bi.lis]
Adjective
mōbilis (neuter mōbile, comparative mōbilior, adverb mōbiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Borrowed:
- → Catalan: mòbil
- → Czech: mobil
- → Danish: mobil
- → Dutch: mobiel
- → English: mobile, mob
- → Finnish: mobile
- → French: mobile
- → Galician: móbil
- → German: mobil, Mobile
- → Hungarian: mobil, mobilis
- → Interlingua: mobile
- ⇒ Italian: mobilia
- → Armenian: մոպիլյա (mopilya) — Constantinople
- → Ottoman Turkish: موبیله (mobila)
- → Turkish: mobilya
- → Lithuanian: mobilus
- → Northern Kurdish: mobîl
- → Norwegian: mobil
- → Polish: mobilny
- → Portuguese: móbil
- → Romanian: mobil, mobilă
- → Russian: мобильный (mobilʹnyj)
- → Spanish: móvil
- → Swedish: mobil
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)