mollities

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

mollis (soft, pliant, weak) +‎ -itiēs

Pronunciation

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’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)