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facilis is a Latin Adjective that primarily means easy.
Adjective
easy, agreeable
English derivatives:
facile facility facilitate
Adjective
(of the performance or completion of actions) Not requiring great effort, easy; (neut. pl. as sb., app.) easy means.
(of tasks, situations, etc.) Straight-forward, easy to handle.
(a) ~e est (w. inf., sup.) It is easy (to). (b) ~ius est ut, it is more likely that. (c) in (ex) ~i esse, to be easy; ex ~i, easily.
(of things) Involving no difficulties, easy to deal with or manage. (b) (of persons or things) putting no difficulties in the way of a particular action or treatment.
(of material things) Easily worked, tractable; (of soil) light. (b) not offering resistance. (c) (of food) easy of digestion, light. (d) (of inanim, things) easily carried, light.
Nihil sciō quod mihi facilius esse possit.Compare I know nothing which could be easier for me.
Id quidem est facile dictū sed difficile factū!Compare This is, indeed, easy to say but difficult to do!
Facilis descensus Averno: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua ditis; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hic labor est.Compare The way to Avernus is easy; night and day lie open the gates of death's dark kingdom; but to retrace your steps, to find the way back to daylight- that is the task, the hard thing.
Omne bellum sumi facile, ceterum aegerrume desinere ... incipere cuivis, etiam ignavo licere, deponi, cum victores velint.Compare War is always easy to start, but very hard to end ... anyone, even a coward, may take up arms, but only the victors can say when they are to be laid down.
Sed vobis facile est verba et componere fraudes: hoc unum didicit femina semper opus.Compare But it is easy for you to contrive lies and wiles: this art every woman has learned well.
Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia manes.Compare There are two gates of Sleep: the one is made of horn, they say, and affords the outlet for genuine apparitions; the other's a gate of brightly-shining ivory: this way the Shades send up to earth false dreams that impose upon us.
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Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "facilis, facile (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed September 7, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/facilis-facile.
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