English → Latin
“flexible” in Latin
flexibilisflexible, pliant, able to be bent; tractable, pliant; fickle, wavering, inconstantmollissoft, delicate to the touch; pliant, flexible, supple; mild, tenderfacilisthat may or can be done or made; easy, facile; ready, quick, easily movingtractābilistractable; pliant, yielding, manageable
The English word flexible itself goes back to Latin flectō, through flexibilis.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
flexible
flexibilis: mollis (both PROP. and IMPROP.; e.g., of the voice): facilis (giving way, yielding, opposed to difficilis): qui regi potest (PROP. and IMPROP.; Vid: Sen., De Ir., ii., 15, extr.): tractabilis (IMPROP., tractable, of persons; mollis conveys the meaning of rather too yielding).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for flexible?
- The usual Latin words for “flexible” are flexibilis, mollis, facilis; also tractābilis. 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.