immobile

immobile

See also: Immobile

English

Etymology

From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/[1]

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

immobile (not comparable)

1. not mobile, not movable
2. fixed, unable to be moved

Synonyms

• fixed
• sessile (botany)
• unmovable

Antonyms

• mobile

Derived terms

• immobility
• immobilization
• immobilize

 

Translations

not mobile

Armenian: անշարժ (hy) (anšarž) Belarusian: нерухо́мы (njeruxómy) Bulgarian: недви́жим (bg) (nedvížim), неподви́жен (bg) (nepodvížen) Catalan: immoble (ca), immòbil (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 不動／不动 (zh) (bùdòng) Czech: nehybný Dutch: bewegingsloos (nl) Esperanto: senmova French: immobile (fr) Galician: inmóbil (gl) German: unbeweglich (de), immobil (de) Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌸𐍃 (ungawagiþs) Greek: ακίνητος (el) (akínitos) Hungarian: mozdulatlan (hu) Italian: immobile (it) Japanese: 揺るぎない (ゆるぎない, yuruginai), 不動の (ja) (ふどうの, fudō no) Korean: 부동의 (ko) (budong'ui), 움직이지 않다 (umjigiji anta) Latin: immōbilis (la) Macedonian: неподвижен (nepodvižen) Manx: neuchorragh Maori: whakaroau Polish: nieruchomy (pl) Portuguese: imóvel (pt), imóbil Russian: неподви́жный (ru) (nepodvížnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: не̏покре̄тан Roman: nȅpokrētan (sh) Slovak: nehybný, imobilný Slovene: nepremičen Spanish: inmóvil (es) Ukrainian: нерухо́мий (neruxómyj)

References

1. Meredith, L. P. (1872), “Immobile”, in Every-Day Errors of Speech, Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott & Co., page 25.

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French

Etymology

From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis. Morphologically analyzable as im- +‎ mobile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mɔ.bil/

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Adjective

immobile (plural immobiles)

1. motionless, unmoving, still, stationary
2. immovable, immobile
3. invariable

Related terms

• immobilier
• immobilisation
• immobiliser
• immobilité

 

Further reading

• “immobile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

immobile

1. inflection of immobil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immōbilis (“immobile, immovable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imˈmɔ.bi.le/

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• Rhymes: -ɔbile
• Hyphenation: im‧mò‧bi‧le

Adjective

immobile (plural immobili)

1. still, motionless, stationary
2. immovable, immobile

Antonyms

• mobile

Derived terms

• immobilmente

Noun

immobile m (plural immobili)

1. real estate, immovable property, building, immovables

   Synonyms: bene immobile, proprietà, (building) edificio, casa, caseggiato, costruzione, palazzo, fabbricato

Related terms

• bene immobile
• immobiliare
• immobilismo
• immobilità
• immobilizzare

 

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /imˈmoː.bi.le/, [ɪmˈmoːbɪɫ̪ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /imˈmo.bi.le/, [imˈmɔːbile]

Adjective

immōbile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of immōbilis

References

• immobile 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)