The corpus record — Latin

immobilis

immobilis · adj

immovable

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Where it lives

Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
De Consolatione ad Helviam 2 · 2.96/10k
De Vita Beata 2 · 2.75/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Res Gestae 28 · 2.2/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 5 · 2.03/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 10 3 · 1.98/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 9 3 · 1.87/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

immōbĭlis — Lewis & Short

immōbĭlis (inm-), e, adj.in-mobilis,

I immovable.

I Lit.

A In gen. (class.): terra immobilis manens, Cic. Rep. 6, 18: elephas tardum et paene immobile animal, Curt. 8, 14: balaenae ad flexum, Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 13: rigor, Quint. 9, 4, 101: immobilior scopulis, Ov. M. 13, 801.—

B In partic.: res, immovable property, real estate, Dig. 2, 8, 15; 41, 3, 23; opp. res mobiles, Ulp. Fragm. 19, 6, 8.—

II Trop., immovable, unmoved, unalterable (mostly post-Aug.): ardet inexcita Ausonia atque immobilis ante, Verg. A. 7, 623: donec princeps immobilem se precibus et invidiae juxta ostendit, Tac. A. 16, 10: adversum plausum ac lasciviam insultantis vulgi immobiles, id. H. 4, 2: isti apathiae sectatores, qui videri se esse tranquillos et intrepidos et immobiles volunt, Gell. 19, 12, 10: statua pro rostris cum hac inscriptione: PIETATIS IMMOBILIS ERGA PRINCIPEM, Suet. Vit. 3: omnia, quae mensurā continentur, certa et immobilia congruere sibi debent, Front. Aquaed. 34.

In the wild

immobiles Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.21.33.3
immobile Statius, Thebais 8.309
immobilem Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 3.P12.p2
immobilis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.90.23
inmobilia Celsus, De Medicina 8.8.p2
immobilis Vergil, Aeneid 7.623

6 of 114 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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