molinum

Latin

Etymology

Substantivization of the neuter of the adjective molīnus, from molō, or a shortening of saxum molīnum ("grinding stone").

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /moˈliː.num/, [mɔˈlʲiːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈli.num/, [moˈliːnum]

Noun

molīnum n (genitive molīnī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) a mill

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	molīnum	molīna
Genitive	molīnī	molīnōrum
Dative	molīnō	molīnīs
Accusative	molīnum	molīna
Ablative	molīnō	molīnīs
Vocative	molīnum	molīna

Related terms

• molīnārius

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: mulino, molino
  • Sicilian: mulinu
• Old French: molin
  • → English: moline
  • Middle French: moulin
    • French: moulin
      • → English: moulin
  • Walloon: molén
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: molí
  • Occitan: molin
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: mulin
  • Romansch: mulin, mulegn
• Sardinian: molinu, mulinu
• Venetian: mulin, molin, mułin
• West Iberian
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: molín
    • Leonese: molín
    • Mirandese: molino
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: moỹo, moinno
    • Galician: muíño, muín
    • Portuguese: moinho
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: molino

• → Albanian: mulli
• → Breton: milin
• → Proto-Germanic: *mulīnō, *mulīnaz
  • Old English: mylen, myln
    • Middle English: mylne, mele, melle, mille, miln, milne, myle, mylene, mylle, myln; molle, mule, mulle, mulne (Southern)
      • English: mill
        • Sranan Tongo: miri
        • → Hindi: मिल (mil)
      • Scots: mill, mull
      • Yola: mile
  • Old Dutch: mulin
    • Middle Dutch: mōlen
      • Dutch: molen
      • Limburgish: meule
  • Old High German: mulin, mulī
    • Middle High German: mül, müle
      • Alemannic German: Müli
      • Bavarian:

        Cimbrian: müul

        Mòcheno: mil

      • Central Franconian: Möhl
        • Hunsrik: Mihl
        • Luxembourgish: Millen
      • German: Mühle
      • Pennsylvania German: Miehl
      • Yiddish: מיל (mil)
  • Old Norse: mylna
    • Icelandic: mylla
    • Norwegian:

      Bokmål: mølle

      Nynorsk: mylne

    • Swedish: mölla
    • Danish: mølle
    • → Finnish: mylly
    • → Kildin Sami: ме̄лл (miell)
• → Old Irish: muilend
  • Irish: muileann
  • Scottish Gaelic: muileann
• → Welsh: melin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) molīnum

1. nominative neuter singular of molīnus
2. accusative masculine singular of molīnus
3. accusative neuter singular of molīnus
4. vocative neuter singular of molīnus

References

• molinum 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)