molle

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

English

Etymology

See moll.

Adjective

molle (not comparable)

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

   B molle

   F molle

See also

• heloma molle
• ulcus molle

References

• “molle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Mello

Albanian

Noun

molle

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of mollë

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔl/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

Etymology 1

Adjective

molle

1. feminine singular of mou

Etymology 2

Borrowed from translingual Molle, and later through French who have travelled South America from Spanish and as well Quechua directly, which backcrossed its meaning to the specific species used by the Incas.

Noun

molle m (plural molles)

1. pepper tree (Schinus gen. et spp., and especially the Peruvian pepper tree (Schinus molle))

Further reading

• “molle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

molle

1. inflection of mollar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɔlle
• Hyphenation: mòl‧le

Etymology 1

From Latin mollem.

Adjective

molle m or f by sense (plural molli)

1. soft
2. flabby
3. weak, feeble

Derived terms

• mollemente

Related terms

• mollare
• mollire

Etymology 2

Noun

molle f

1. plural of molla

Noun

molle f pl (plural only)

1. tongs, fire tongs

Latin

Etymology

From mollis (“soft”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔl.lɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔl.le]

Noun

molle n (genitive mollis); third declension

1. softness, smoothness

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	molle	mollia
genitive	mollis	mollium
dative	mollī	mollibus
accusative	molle	mollia
ablative	mollī	mollibus
vocative	molle	mollia

Adjective

molle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of mollis

References

• "molle", 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)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (which is perhaps related to *muldō (“loose earth, soil”)), either through an unattested Old English *mol or as a borrowing from Middle Dutch mol, molle.

Alternative forms

• mole, mold, molde, moule

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔl(ə)/

Noun

molle (plural molles)

1. mole (Talpa europea)

   Synonyms: moldewarpe, wont

Descendants

• English: mole

References

• “molle, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Often derived from Old English myl (“dust, powder”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan (“to grind”), but the vocalism in /u/ would then be difficult to explain given the dialectal provenance of molle's attestations. Derivation from a related formation without umlaut or a continental Germanic cognate of myl has been proposed, but borrowing or at least influence from Middle French mol (“soft”) or its etymon Latin mollis) is also possible, especially given the word's late attestation; see mollen.

Alternative forms

• mol, moll, mul, mull, mulle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔl/, /mul/

Noun

molle (uncountable)

1. rubbish, refuse
2. dirt, grit
3. (figurative) trappings of mortality

Descendants

• English: mull
• Middle Scots: moll
  • Scots: mow (obsolete)

Etymology 3

Noun

molle

1. alternative form of mylne

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

Spanish

Alternative forms

• muelle, mulle, molli, mulli

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua molli, mulli meaning that tree.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoʝe/ [ˈmo.ʝe]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoʝe/ [ˈmo.ʝe] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmoʎe/ [ˈmo.ʎe] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmoʃe/ [ˈmo.ʃe] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmoʒe/ [ˈmo.ʒe] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

• Rhymes: -oʝe

• Rhymes: -oʝe (most of Spain and Latin America)
• Rhymes: -oʎe (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -oʃe (Buenos Aires and environs)
• Rhymes: -oʒe (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Syllabification: mo‧lle

Noun

molle m (plural molles)

1. pepper tree (Schinus gen. et spp., and especially the Peruvian pepper tree (Schinus molle))

   Synonym: huingán

Further reading

• “molle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024