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moles

See also: molés, môles, and Moles

English

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Noun

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moles

  1. plural of mole

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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moles

  1. plural of mola (“millstone”)

Etymology 2

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moles

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

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moles

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

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moles

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

Danish

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moles c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of mole

French

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moles f

  1. plural of mole

Galician

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moles

  1. second-person singular present indicative of mulir

Jamaican Creole

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Etymology

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Derived from English molest.

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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 […]

Latin

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Etymology

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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.

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Noun

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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
  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

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

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

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: mola, moll (see there for further descendants)
  • Italian: mole
  • Portuguese: mó
  • Borrowings:

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  1. ^ 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

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

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Adjective

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moles

  1. masculine/feminine plural of mole

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moles m

  1. plural of mol

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moles f

  1. plural of mole

Spanish

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Adjective

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moles m pl or f pl

  1. plural of mole

Noun

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moles m pl

  1. plural of mol
  2. plural of mole

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moles

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of molar
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