mollities

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

mollis (“soft, pliant, weak”) +‎ -itiēs

Noun

mollitiēs f (genitive mollitiēī); fifth declension

  1. pliability, flexibility, suppleness
  2. softness

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Case 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)
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