moles
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- second-person singular present indicative of molar (“to mock”)
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- second-person singular present indicative of molar (“to sharpen (dialectal)”)
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Jamaican Creole
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editmoles
- to molest
- 1995 February 8, Carolyn Cooper, Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
- ... infamieshan wi no gi If a man a moles mi an mi famili Mi naa ron fi poliis ar sikuoriti Mi uda chek fi mi ruud bwai kompini [We are not informers, we don't give information If someone is molesting me and my family I wouldn't run to […]
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *meh₃- (“to exert”) (though de Vaan reconstructs the Proto-Indo-European root as *melos (“trouble, obstacle”) instead[1]). Cognate with Ancient Greek μῶλος (môlos, “turmoil”) and German mühen (“to labor, toil”). See also Latin mōs.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmoː.leːs/, [ˈmoːɫ̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.les/, [ˈmɔːles]
Noun
editmōlēs f (genitive mōlis); third declension
- multitude, mass (of material)
- Synonyms: multitūdō, frequentia, cōpia, ūbertās, nūbēs
- (by extension) size
- rock, boulder, cliff, ridge, outcrop, knoll
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.149–152:
- est mōlēs nātīva locō rēs nōmina fēcit:
appellant Saxum; pars bona montis eā est.
huic Remus īnstiterat frūstrā, quō tempore frātrī
prīma Palātīnae signa dedistis avēs.- There is a ridge, that which gave natural names to the place: they call it the Rock; it forms a good part of the [Aventine] Hill. To this [place] Remus had uselessly embarked, at which time you, birds of the Palatine, gave foremost omens to his brother, [Romulus].
(See Aventine Hill.)
- There is a ridge, that which gave natural names to the place: they call it the Rock; it forms a good part of the [Aventine] Hill. To this [place] Remus had uselessly embarked, at which time you, birds of the Palatine, gave foremost omens to his brother, [Romulus].
- est mōlēs nātīva locō rēs nōmina fēcit:
- heap, pile
- (military) war machine
- weight, burden, heaviness
- strife, endeavour, effort
- difficulty, labor, trouble
- Synonyms: difficultās, īnfortūnium, cūra
- fortification, wall, rampart
- Synonyms: munitio, praesidium
- mass of soldiers, a large army
- mole, pier, jetty
Declension
editThird-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | mōlēs | mōlēs |
Genitive | mōlis | mōlium |
Dative | mōlī | mōlibus |
Accusative | mōlem | mōlēs mōlīs |
Ablative | mōle | mōlibus |
Vocative | mōlēs | mōlēs |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Catalan: mola, moll (see there for further descendants)
- → Ancient Greek: μόλος (mólos)
- Italian: mole
- Portuguese: mó
- Spanish: mole
- Borrowings:
References
edit- “moles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “moles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- moles 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)
- moles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- moles in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mōlēs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 386
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editmoles m pl or f pl
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editmoles m pl
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