mallus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαλλός (mallós).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmal.lʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmal.lus]

mallus m (genitive mallī); second declension

1. A lock of wool

Second-declension noun.

• “mallus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "mallus", 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)
• mallus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mallus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “mallus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mallus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly