molestus
Latin
Etymology
Seemingly from *melos, meles- n + -tus, with the first element an unattested neuter s-stem noun from the same root as mōlēs.[1] Compare modestus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɔˈɫɛs.tʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [moˈlɛs.t̪us]
Adjective
molestus (feminine molesta, neuter molestum, comparative molestior, superlative molestissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | molestus | molesta | molestum | molestī | molestae | molesta | |
| genitive | molestī | molestae | molestī | molestōrum | molestārum | molestōrum | |
| dative | molestō | molestae | molestō | molestīs | |||
| accusative | molestum | molestam | molestum | molestōs | molestās | molesta | |
| ablative | molestō | molestā | molestō | molestīs | |||
| vocative | moleste | molesta | molestum | molestī | molestae | molesta | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ 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
Further reading
- “molestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “molestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- molestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- I am pained, vexed, sorry: aegre, graviter, moleste fero aliquid (or with Acc. c. Inf. or quod)
- to be discontented, vexed at a thing; to chafe: aegre, graviter, moleste, indigne ferre aliquid
- I am pained, vexed, sorry: aegre, graviter, moleste fero aliquid (or with Acc. c. Inf. or quod)