The corpus record — Latin

mobilitas

mobilitas · f

movableness, mobility, activity, speed, rapidity, quickness

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Where it lives

Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
De Rerum Natura 9 · 1.85/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Jugurtha 2 · 0.94/10k
Historiae 4 · 0.78/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
De bello Gallico 2 · 0.39/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

mōbĭlĭtas — Lewis & Short

mōbĭlĭtas, ātis, f.mobilis,

I movableness, mobility, activity, speed, rapidity, quickness (class.).

I Lit.: animal mobilitate celerrimā, Cic. N. D. 2, 15, 42: linguae, volubility, id. de Or. 1, 28, 127: equitum, agility, rapidity (opp. stabilitas peditum), Caes. B. G. 4, 33: fulminis, quickness, Lucr. 6, 323. sanare mobilitates dentium, looseness, Plin. 20, 21, 84, § 224.—

II Trop.

A Changeableness, fickleness, inconstancy: quid est inconstantiā, mobilitate, levitate turpius? Cic. Phil. 7, 3, 9: fortunae, Nep. Dion. 6, 1: ingenii, inconstancy of character, Sall. J. 88, 6: vulgi, Tac. H. 5, 8.—

B Quickness, vivacity: opus est naturali quādam mobilitate animi, Quint. 10, 7, 8.

Where it came from

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