moles

See also:molés,môles,andMoles

English

Noun

moles

1. pluralofmole

Anagrams

• Melos,Solem,melos,moels

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Noun

moles

1. pluralofmola(“millstone”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Noun

moles

1. pluralofmola(“mass(large volume);sunfish; etc.”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

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

Verb

moles

1. second-personsingularpresentindicativeofmolar(“to mock”)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

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

Verb

moles

1. second-personsingularpresentindicativeofmolar(“to sharpen(dialectal)”)

Danish

Noun

molesc

1. indefinitegenitivesingularofmole

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

molesf

1. pluralofmole

Galician

Verb

moles

1. second-personsingularpresentindicativeofmulir

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

DerivedfromEnglishmolest.

Verb

moles

1. tomolest
   • 1995February 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 amolesmi 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 ismolestingme and my family I wouldn't run to[…]

Latin

Etymology

FromProto-Indo-European*meh₃-(“to exert”)(though de Vaan reconstructs the Proto-Indo-European root as*melos(“trouble, obstacle”)instead).Cognate withAncient Greekμῶλος(môlos,“turmoil”)andGermanmühen(“to labor, toil”).See also Latinmōs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈmoː.leːs/,[ˈmoːɫ̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈmo.les/,[ˈmɔːles]

Noun

mōlēsf(genitivemōlis);third declension

1. multitude,mass(of material)

   Synonyms:multitūdō,frequentia,cōpia,ūbertās,nūbēs

2. (by extension)size
3. rock,boulder,cliff,ridge,outcrop,knoll
   • 8CE,Ovid,Fasti5.149–152:

     estmōlēsnātīva 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 aridge,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].
     (SeeAventine Hill.)

4. heap,pile

   Synonyms:cumulus,massa,acervus

5. (military)warmachine
6. weight,burden,heaviness

   Synonyms:onus,pondus,gravitās

7. strife,endeavour,effort

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

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

     quantamolegesseratbella

     with sucheffortshe had managed the wars

8. difficulty,labor,trouble

   Synonyms:difficultās,īnfortūnium,cūra

9. fortification,wall,rampart

   Synonyms:munitio,praesidium

10. massofsoldiers,alargearmy
11. mole,pier,jetty

Declension

Third-declensionnoun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	mōlēs	mōlēs
genitive	mōlis	mōlium
dative	mōlī	mōlibus
accusative	mōlem	mōlēs mōlīs
ablative	mōle	mōlibus
vocative	mōlēs	mōlēs

Derived terms

• mōlēcula(New Latin)
• molestus
• mōlior

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “moles”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moles”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
• molesin Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis(augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• molesinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.
• molesinRamminger, 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

Portuguese

Adjective

moles

1. masculine/femininepluralofmole

Noun

molesm

1. pluralofmol

Noun

molesf

1. pluralofmole

Spanish

Adjective

molesmplorfpl

1. pluralofmole

Noun

molesmpl

1. pluralofmol
2. pluralofmole

Verb

moles

1. second-personsingularpresentsubjunctiveofmolar