moles

See also: molés, môles, and Moles

English

Noun

moles

1. plural of mole

Verb

moles

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mole

Anagrams

• Melos, Solem, melos, moels

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Noun

moles

1. plural of mola (“millstone”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

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

Noun

moles

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

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

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

Verb

moles

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

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

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

Verb

moles

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

Danish

Noun

moles c

1. indefinite genitive singular of mole

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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Noun

moles f

1. plural of mole

Galician

Verb

moles

1. second-person singular present indicative of mulir

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English molest.

Verb

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

Etymology

Uncertain. The term is sometimes connected with Proto-Indo-European *meh₃- (“to exert”), though De Vaan reconstructs the Proto-Indo-European root as *melos (“trouble, obstacle”) instead.

If the term derives from Proto-Indo-European *meh₃- (“to exert”), then it is cognate with Ancient Greek μῶλος (môlos, “turmoil”) and German mühen (“to labor, toil”). See also Latin mōs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmoː.ɫeːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.les]

Noun

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, Ovidius, 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

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita I.38:

     quanta mole gesserat bella

     with such efforts he had managed the wars

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

Declension

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

Derived terms

• mōlēcula (New Latin)
• molestus
• mōlior

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “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, 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 (16 July 2016 (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/feminine plural of mole

Noun

moles m

1. plural of mol

Noun

moles f

1. plural of mole

Spanish

Adjective

moles m pl or f pl

1. plural of mole

Noun

moles m pl

1. plural of mol
2. plural of mole

Verb

moles

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of molar