English → Latin
“flexibility, flexibleness” in Latin
habilitāsability, aptitude, fitnessmollitiapliability, flexibility, suppleness; softness, tenderness, weakness, irresolutionfacilitāsease, easiness, facility, readiness; willingness; affability, courteousness; levity, heedlessnessobsequiumcomplaisance, yielding, compliance, obedience; allegiance; deference, obsequiousness, flatteryobsequorto accommodate oneself to the will of another person; comply with, yield to, gratify, oblige, humor, submit; to yield tocervīxneck, nape, throat; great burden, danger (from the figure taken from bearing the yoke); boldness, headstrong behavior
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
flexibility, flexibleness
habilitas: mollitia (e.g., cervicis): facilitas: mores faciles: animus facilis (with reference to character): obsequium: obsequentia (a yielding to anything, compliance; the latter, *Caes., B.G., 7, 29). Flexibility of the joints, molles commissurae; of the voice, vocis mollitudo: natural flexibility of anybody’s character (i. e., tractability), natura tractabilis.
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- What is the Latin word for flexibility, flexibleness?
- The usual Latin words for “flexibility, flexibleness” are habilitās, mollitia, facilitās; also obsequium, obsequor, cervīx. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.