moles

moles

1. plural of mole

• Melos, Solem, melos, moels

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.ləs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.les]

moles

1. plural of mola (“millstone”)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.ləs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.les]

moles

1. plural of mola (“mass (large volume); sunfish; etc.”)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmo.ləs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmo.les]

moles

1. second-person singular present indicative of molar (“to mock”)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.ləs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.les]

moles

1. second-person singular present indicative of molar (“to sharpen (dialectal)”)

moles c

1. indefinite genitive singular of mole

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moles f

1. plural of mole

moles

1. second-person singular present indicative of mulir

Derived from English molest.

moles

1. 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 […]

From 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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmoː.ɫeːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.les]

mōlēs f (genitive mōlis); third declension

1. multitude, mass (of material)

   Synonyms: multitūdō, frequentia, cōpia, ūbertās, nūbēs

2. (by extension) size
3. 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.)

4. heap, pile

   Synonyms: cumulus, massa, acervus

5. (military) war machine
6. weight, burden, heaviness

   Synonyms: onus, pondus, gravitās

7. strife, endeavour, effort

   Synonyms: cōnātus, studium, opus, opera, labor, mōlīmen, cūra, intēnsiō, pulvis

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.38:

     quanta mole gesserat bella

     with such efforts he had managed the wars

8. difficulty, labor, trouble

   Synonyms: difficultās, īnfortūnium, cūra

9. fortification, wall, rampart

   Synonyms: munitio, praesidium

10. mass of soldiers, a large army
11. mole, pier, jetty

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• mōlēcula (New Latin)
• molestus
• mōlior

• Catalan: mola, moll (see there for further descendants)
• Italian: mole
• Portuguese: mó
• Borrowings:
  • → Ancient Greek: μόλος (mólos)
    • → Italian: molo
      • → Danish: mole
      • → English: mole
      • → French: môle
      • → German: Mole
      • → Hungarian: móló
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: molo
      • → Polish: molo
      • → Russian: мол (mol)
  • → English: mole
  • → Portuguese: mole
  • → Spanish: mole

• “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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

moles

1. masculine/feminine plural of mole

moles m

1. plural of mol

moles f

1. plural of mole

moles m pl or f pl

1. plural of mole

moles m pl

1. plural of mol
2. plural of mole

moles

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of molar