mobil-, mobi-

(Latin: move, moving, to set in motion)


automobile
1. That which moves by means of mechanism and power within itself; especially, of a vehicle; self-propelling as distinguished from horse-drawn.
2. A self-moving vehicle; a motor vehicle.
3. A road vehicle, usually with four wheels and powered by an internal-combustion engine, designed to carry a small number of passengers.
demobilize
immobile
immobility
immobilization
locomobile
mob (mobile vulgus)
mobile
mobile vulgus
Movable public; the unstable, fickle crowd.

The mob, the fickle or excited crowd; a phrase that recognizes the inconstancy of popular taste and the ease with which clever politicians can influence the great mass of voters. The English word "mob" is a contractioin of this phrase.

mobility
mobilization
mobilize
mobilophilist
A collector of motor cars.
mobocracy
1. The rule of the mob, government by a mob.
2. The “mob” or lowest class as a ruling body.
3. A ruling or politically supreme mob.
palatum mobile
Soft palate.

Related "move, motion" word units: cine-; kine-; mot-, mov-; oscillo-; seismo-; vibro-.


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