flexibilis
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /flekˈsi.bi.lis/, [fɫ̪ɛkˈs̠ɪbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /flekˈsi.bi.lis/, [fleɡˈziːbilis]
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.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | 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
Descendants
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.
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