facilis

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /faˈt͡silis/
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Rhymes: -ilis
Syllabification: fa‧ci‧lis

Verb

facilis

past of facili

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Proto-Indo-European *-elis

Proto-Italic *-elis

Latin -ilis

Latin facilis

From faciō (“do, make”) + -ilis.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfa.kɪ.lɪs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.t͡ʃi.lis]

Adjective

facilis (neuter facile, comparative facilior, superlative facillimus, adverb facile); third-declension two-termination adjective

that may or can be done or made
easy, facile
Synonym: prōmptus

Antonym: difficilis
ready, quick, easily moving
Synonyms: rapidus, celer, vēlōx, properus, levis, prōmptus

Antonyms: lentus, tardus, sērus
good-natured, agreeable
courteous
sociable, affable
Synonyms: affābilis, amīcābilis, benevolēns

Antonyms: inimīcus, hostīlis, īnfestus, īnfēnsus, oblīquus, adversus, dīversus, āversus, inīquus
compliant, willing, yielding
Synonyms: obsequēns, obsequiōsus, oboediēns

Antonyms: sēditiōsus, tumultuōsus, turbulentus, obstinātus, difficilis

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	facilis	facile	facilēs	facilia
genitive	facilis		facilium
dative	facilī		facilibus
accusative	facilem	facile	facilīs facilēs	facilia
ablative	facilī		facilibus
vocative	facilis	facile	facilēs	facilia

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “easy”): difficilis

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Catalan: fàcil
→ Dalmatian: fázil
→ Middle French: facile
- French: facile
- → English: facile
→ Friulian: facil
→ Galician: fácil
→ Italian: facile
Lombard: fazzil
→ Piedmontese: facil
→ Portuguese: fácil
→ Romanian: facil
→ Spanish: fácil

References

“făcĭlis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“facilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"facilis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“facilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have an appreciative audience: populum facilem, aequum habere
- to be a ready, fluent speaker: facilem et expeditum esse ad dicendum (Brut. 48. 180)
- a sociable, affable disposition: facilitas, faciles mores (De Am. 3. 11)
facilis in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016