molossus

English

Alternative forms

• molosse

Etymology

From Latin molossus, from Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós), properly "belonging to the Molossians", a people in the eastern part of Epirus.

Noun

molossus (plural molossuses or molossi)

1. (poetry) A metrical foot of three long syllables.

Translations

metrical foot

• German: Molossus (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: μολοσσός m (molossós)

• Latin: molossus m, extensipes m, pes hippius

Latin

Alternative forms

• molossos

Etymology

From μολοσσός (molossós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /moˈlos.sus/, [mɔˈɫ̪ɔs̠ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈlos.sus/, [moˈlɔsːus]

Noun

molossus m (genitive molossī); second declension

1. A molosser dog
2. (poetry) A metrical foot ( - - - )

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	molossus	molossī
Genitive	molossī	molossōrum
Dative	molossō	molossīs
Accusative	molossum	molossōs
Ablative	molossō	molossīs
Vocative	molosse	molossī

Related terms

• molossīnus
• molossicus
• Molossia

Descendants

• Translingual: Molossus

References

• “molossus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• molossus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “molossus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers