The corpus record — Latin

labilis

labilis · adj

Slipping, gliding, prone to slip

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Where it lives

Res Gestae 5 · 0.39/10k

What it meant

lābĭlis — Lewis & Short

lābĭlis, e, adj.1. labor, (post-class. for caducus, infirmus, debilis).

I Slipping, gliding, prone to slip or slide.

A Lit.: humus rivis operta sanguineis, gressus labiles evertebat, Amm. 31, 13, 6; Arnob. 2, 59.—

B Trop., fleeting, gliding, prone, transient, perishable: in vitia labiles animae, Arnob. 2, 45: dulcedo, id. 7, 4 init.—

II Causing to slip, slippery: limus, Amm. 27, 10, 11: humus, id. 15, 10, 5.—Hence. lābĭlĭter, adv., waveringly, Aug. Gen. ad Litt. 8. 3.

In the wild

labilem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.10.11
labiles Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 26.8.9
labilis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.10.5
labile Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8.48
labiles Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.13.6

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.