molle

See moll.

molle (not comparable)

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

   B molle

   F molle

• heloma molle
• ulcus molle

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

• Mello

• IPA^(key): /mɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl

molle

1. feminine singular of mou

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.

molle m (plural molles)

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

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

molle

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

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

From Latin mollem.

molle (plural molli)

1. soft
2. flabby
3. weak, feeble

• mollemente

• mollare
• mollire

molle f

1. plural of molla

molle f pl (plural only)

1. tongs, fire tongs

From mollis (“soft”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmol.le/, [ˈmɔlːʲɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmol.le/, [ˈmɔlːe]

molle n (genitive mollis); third declension

1. softness, smoothness

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

molle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of mollis

• 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)

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.

• mole, mold, molde, moule

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔl(ə)/

molle (plural molles)

2. mole (Talpa europea)

   Synonyms: moldewarpe, wont

• English: mole

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

From Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis.

• mol, moll, mul, mull, mulle

• IPA^(key): /mɔl/, /mul/

molle (uncountable)

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

• English: mull

• “mol(le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

molle

1. Alternative form of mylne

molle

1. feminine singular of mo

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmolle/

molle

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

• muelle, mulle, molli, mulli

Borrowed from Quechua molli, mulli meaning that tree.

• Syllabification: mo‧lle

molle m (plural molles)

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

   Synonym: huingán

• “molle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28