# immobile
## English
### Etymology

From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- +‎ mobile.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɪˈməʊ.baɪl/
* (US) IPA: /ɪˈmoʊ.bəl/
* (obsolete) IPA: /ɪˈmɒ.bɪl/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

immobile (not comparable)
* Fixed, not movable.
    Synonyms: immovable, fixed, sessile; see also Thesaurus:immobile
    Antonyms: movable, mobile; see also Thesaurus:movable
** 2014, Lewis Johnson, Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture‎:This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.

### Noun

immobile (plural immobiles)
* One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).
    Synonyms: inactive, nonmover
** 1963, Highway Research Record:[…] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]
** 1988 February 25, Nigel Nicholson, Michael West, Managerial Job Change: Men and Women in Transition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 132:Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.
** 2005 July 19, Ian M. Philpott, The Royal Air Force: The Trenchard Years, 1918–1929, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN:One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The immobiles brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used […]

#### Derived terms

* immobility
* immobilization
* immobilize

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Meredith, L. P. (1872) “Immobile”, in Every-Day Errors of Speech‎, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., page 25.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis. Morphologically analyzable as im- +‎ mobile. Doublet of immeuble.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /i.mɔ.bil/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

immobile (plural immobiles)
* motionless, unmoving, still, stationary
* immovable, immobile
* invariable

#### Related terms

* immobilier
* immobilisation
* immobiliser
* immobilité

### Further reading

* “immobile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

immobile
* inflection of immobil:
** strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
** strong nominative/accusative plural
** weak nominative all-gender singular
** weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immōbilis (“immobile, immovable”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /imˈmɔ.bi.le/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔbile
* Hyphenation: im‧mò‧bi‧le

### Adjective

immobile (plural immobili)
* still, motionless, stationary
* immovable, immobile

#### Antonyms

* mobile

#### Derived terms

* immobilmente

### Noun

immobile m (plural immobili)
* real estate, immovable property, building, immovables
    Synonyms: bene immobile, proprietà, (building) edificio, casa, caseggiato, costruzione, palazzo, fabbricato

#### Related terms

* bene immobile
* immobiliare
* immobilismo
* immobilità
* immobilizzare

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /imˈmoː.bi.le/, [ɪmˈmoːbɪɫ̪ɛ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /imˈmo.bi.le/, [imˈmɔːbile]

### Adjective

immōbile
* nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of immōbilis

### References

* immobile 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)