molde
See also: Molde
English edit
Noun edit
molde (usually uncountable, plural moldes)
- Obsolete spelling of mold
- 1567, Ovid, “The First Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, lines 724-5:
- And could not finde hir any where, assuredly he thought
She did not live above the molde, ne drewe the vitall breath:
Anagrams edit
Basque edit
Noun edit
molde
Middle English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English molde, from Proto-West Germanic *moldu, from Proto-Germanic *muldō.
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Noun edit
molde (uncountable)
- dirt (loose soil):
- ground (surface of the Earth)
- (figuratively) grave, deathbed
- The world, the planet (i.e., Earth)
- clay (mineral substance)
- (heraldry, rare) escutcheon
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References edit
- “mōld(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
From Old English molda, molde, from Proto-West Germanic *moldō, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥Hdʰṓ; exactly parallel to Sanskrit मूर्धन् (mūrdhan).
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Noun edit
molde (plural moldes)
- The top or crown of the head.
- (mistakenly) The uvula (as remedies applied to the crown supposedly affected it)
- (anatomy, rare) The divide between the cranial bones.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “mōld(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3 edit
From Old French modle, mole, from Latin modulus.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
molde (plural moldes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “mōld(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
molde
- Alternative form of molle (“mole”)
Etymology 5 edit
Noun edit
molde
- Alternative form of mowlde
Etymology 6 edit
Verb edit
molde
- Alternative form of molden
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *muldō, from *mel- (“to grind”). Cognate with Old High German molta (dialectal German Molt), Old Norse mold (Swedish mull), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
molde f
Declension edit
Declension of molde (weak)
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Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mol‧de
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
molde m (plural moldes)
- mould, cast
- (by extension) model, example
- A escola foi o molde para toda a sua vida.
- School was a model for his whole life.
- (typography) printing mould
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
molde
- inflection of moldar:
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Catalan motle, metathesized from Latin modulus.
Noun edit
molde m (plural moldes)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
molde
- inflection of moldar:
Further reading edit
- “molde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014