μόλις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Solmsen compares μόλις to μῶλος (môlos, “turmoil, fight”), as well as to μέλλω (méllō, “to be about to do, to hesitate”), but Beekes considers the former phonetically problematic due to the root vocalism, and the latter semantically uncompelling.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.lis/ → /ˈmo.lis/ → /ˈmo.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/

Adverb

μόλις • (mólis)

1. only just
2. hardly, scarcely, barely

Descendants

• Greek: μόλις (mólis)

Further reading

• μόλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μόλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G3433 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • arduously idem, page 39.
  • barely idem, page 63.
  • difficulty idem, page 223.
  • dimly idem, page 225.
  • effort idem, page 263.
  • hardly idem, page 385.
  • ill idem, page 414.
  • laboriously idem, page 472.
  • little idem, page 495.
  • narrowly idem, page 551.
  • painfully idem, page 589.
  • reluctantly idem, page 692.
  • scarcely idem, page 737.
  • struggle idem, page 828.
  • toilsomely idem, page 880.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόλις (mólis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
• Hyphenation: μό‧λις

Adverb

μόλις • (mólis)

1. barely
2. just

Conjunction

μόλις • (mólis)

1. as soon as, once