agilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Proto-Indo-European *-elis

Proto-Italic *-elis

Latin -ilis

Latin agilis

From agō (“do, act”) + -ilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɡɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.d͡ʒi.lis]

Adjective

agilis (neuter agile, comparative agilior, superlative agilissimus, adverb agiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. That can be easily moved, easily movable; light.
2. That moves easily or quickly; nimble, agile, dextrous, quick, rapid
3. Active, busy, prompt.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	agilis	agile		agilēs	agilia
genitive	agilis			agilium
dative	agilī			agilibus
accusative	agilem	agile		agilīs agilēs	agilia
ablative	agilī			agilibus
vocative	agilis	agile		agilēs	agilia

Derived terms

• agilitās
• agiliter

Descendants

• Catalan: àgil
• → English: agile
• French: agile
• Friulian: agjil
• Galician: áxil
• Italian: agile
• Occitan: agil
• Piedmontese: àgil
• Portuguese: ágil
• Romanian: ager, agil
• Spanish: ágil

References

• “agilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “agilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “agilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 31