toles

See also: Toles and tôles

English

Noun

toles

1. plural of tole

Anagrams

• TESOL, lotes, stole, telos

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the determiner toes (“all”) + feminine plural article les (“the”).

Contraction

toles f pl (masculine sg tol, feminine sg tola, neuter sg tolo, masculine plural tolos)

1. all the

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tonslis, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”). Cognate with Latin tōnsillae.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtoː.leːs/, [ˈt̪oːɫ̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.les/, [ˈt̪ɔːles]

Noun

tōlēs m pl (genitive tōlium); third declension

1. tonsillitis
2. goitre

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	tōlēs
Genitive	tōlium
Dative	tōlibus
Accusative	tōlēs tōlīs
Ablative	tōlibus
Vocative	tōlēs

Derived terms

• tonsillae

References

• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “toles”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 693
• toles 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)
• toles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Middle English

Noun

toles

1. plural of tool (“tool”)