mollities

Latin

Alternative forms

• mollitia

Etymology

mollis (“soft, pliant, weak”) +‎ -itiēs

Noun

mollitiēs f (genitive mollitiēī); fifth declension

1. pliability, flexibility, suppleness
2. softness

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mollitiēs	mollitiēs
genitive	mollitiēī	mollitiērum
dative	mollitiēī	mollitiēbus
accusative	mollitiem	mollitiēs
ablative	mollitiē	mollitiēbus
vocative	mollitiēs	mollitiēs

Descendants

• Portuguese: molície
• Spanish: molicie, mollez

References

• mollities 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)
• mollities in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)