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Etymology

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From mōlēs (a pile, heap).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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mōlior (present infinitive mōlīrī or mōlīrier, perfect active mōlītus sum); fourth conjugation, deponent

  1. to strive, endeavor, work at
  2. to put in motion, shake, move
  3. to rouse, bestir
  4. to undertake, start, begin, commence
  5. to erect, construct
  6. (figuratively) to attempt, stir up
    • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Persa 5.2.8:
      Quia eī fidem nōn habuī argentī, eō mihi eās māchinās mōlītu'st.
      Because I had no trust in him about the silver, he laid me these machinations.
    • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations 1.8:
      Nihil agis, nihil mōlīris, nihil cōgitās quod nōn ego nōn modo audiam sed etiam videam plānēque sentiam.
      You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.268–272:
      Quippe etiam fēstīs quaedam exercēre diēbus
      fās et iūra sinunt: rīvōs dēdūcere nūlla
      rēligiō vetuit, segetī praetendere saepem,
      īnsidiās avibus mōlīrī, incendere veprēs,
      bālantumque gregem fluviō mersāre salūbrī.
      Of course, even on holidays to do some tasks
      divine order and laws allow: to guide down the rills no
      religion has forbidden, to lay a hedge in front of a crop,
      to set the birds traps, to burn bushes,
      to bathe the bleating herd in the clean river.

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of mōlior (fourth conjugation, deponent)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present mōlior mōlīris,
mōlīre
mōlītur mōlīmur mōlīminī mōliuntur
imperfect mōliēbar mōliēbāris,
mōliēbāre
mōliēbātur mōliēbāmur mōliēbāminī mōliēbantur
future mōliar mōliēris,
mōliēre
mōliētur mōliēmur mōliēminī mōlientur
perfect mōlītus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect mōlītus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect mōlītus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present mōliar mōliāris,
mōliāre
mōliātur mōliāmur mōliāminī mōliantur
imperfect mōlīrer mōlīrēris,
mōlīrēre
mōlīrētur mōlīrēmur mōlīrēminī mōlīrentur
perfect mōlītus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect mōlītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present mōlīre mōlīminī
future mōlītor mōlītor mōliuntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives mōlīrī,
mōlīrier1
mōlītum esse mōlītūrum esse
participles mōliēns mōlītus mōlītūrus mōliendus,
mōliundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
mōliendī mōliendō mōliendum mōliendō mōlītum mōlītū

1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

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References

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  • molior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • molior in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • molior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • molior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
    • to be busy with ambitious projects: magna moliri
    • to meditate crime: scelera moliri (Att. 7. 11)
    • to shake credit: fidem moliri (Liv. 6. 11. 8)
    • to plot a revolution: novas res moliri (Verr. 2. 125)
    • to meditate war: bellum moliri