agility
English
/əˈdʒɪl.ɪ.ti/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; quickness of motion
- (countable) A faculty of being agile in body, mind, or figuratively.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French agilité derived from Latin agilitās suffix from English agile.
Origin
English
agile
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- agile English
- agilely English
- agileness English
- agilist English
- nonagile English
- superagile English
- superagility English
- unagile English
- agility Finnish
- agilis Latin
- agilitas Latin
- agiliter Latin
- agilitās Latin
- agō Latin
- agil German
- agile Italian
- agile French
- ágil Spanish, Castilian
- *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- ágil Portuguese
- agility Swedish
- agil Danish
- àgil Catalan, Valencian
- áxil Galician
- ager Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- agilité Middle French
- agil Occitan
- agile Scots