molle

See also: MOLLE, Mollé, mollë, mölle, and mølle

English

Etymology

See moll.

Adjective

molle (not comparable)

  1. (music, obsolete) flat; lowered by a semitone
    B molle
    E molle

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for molle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔl

Adjective

molle

  1. feminine singular of mou

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin mollis, mollem, from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)moldus (“soft, weak”), from *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”).

Adjective

molle (masculine and feminine plural molli)

  1. soft
  2. flabby
  3. weak, feeble

Etymology 2

Noun

molle f

  1. plural of molla
  2. tongs, fire tongs

Latin

Etymology

From mollis (“soft”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmol.le/, [ˈmɔl.lɛ]

Noun

molle n (genitive mollis); third declension

  1. softness, smoothness

Inflection

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
nominative molle mollia
genitive mollis mollium
dative mollī mollibus
accusative molle mollia
ablative mollī mollibus
vocative molle mollia

Adjective

molle

  1. nominative neuter singular of mollis
  2. accusative neuter singular of mollis
  3. vocative neuter singular of mollis

References

Norman

Adjective

molle

  1. feminine singular of mo

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈmolle/

Verb

molle

  1. inflection of mollat:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. third-person plural past indicative
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