affable Copy link Outline 1. affābĭlis, e2. commŏdus3. cōmis, e4. făcĭlis, e • affable: 1. affābĭlis, e: he wished to be a. to all, omnibus af. se esse volebat, Cic.: Virg. 2. commŏdus: to be a person of a. manners, commodis moribus esse, Cic.: v. agreeable. 3. cōmis, e: who more a. than Laelius? quis Laelio comior? Cic.: v. courteous. 4. făcĭlis, e: to be a. in hearing people, f. se in hominibus audiendis praebere, Cic.: v. good-natured.
AFFABLE Copy link • AFFABLEaffabilis (pleasantly conversing with inferiors): comis (kind and condescending toward inferiors; obliging toward equals): civilis (of princes, behaving toward their subjects as their fellowcitizen: post-Augustan). [OBSERVE, humanitas is o higher virtue, of which affabilitas, comitas, etc., are partial manifestations.]