mollities
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
mollis (“soft, pliant, weak”) + -itiēs
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɔlˈlɪ.ti.eːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [molˈlit̪.t̪͡s̪i.es]
Noun
mollitiēs f (genitive mollitiēī); fifth declension
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
References
- "mollities", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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)
- immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)