molestus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Seemingly from *melos, meles- n + -tus, with the first element an unattested neuter s-stem noun from the same root as mōlēs.[1] Compare modestus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /moˈles.tus/, [mɔˈɫ̪ɛs̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /moˈles.tus/, [moˈlɛst̪us]
Adjective
[edit]molestus (feminine molesta, neuter molestum, comparative molestior, superlative molestissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | molestus | molesta | molestum | molestī | molestae | molesta | |
genitive | molestī | molestae | molestī | molestōrum | molestārum | molestōrum | |
dative | molestō | molestae | molestō | molestīs | |||
accusative | molestum | molestam | molestum | molestōs | molestās | molesta | |
ablative | molestō | molestā | molestō | molestīs | |||
vocative | moleste | molesta | molestum | molestī | molestae | molesta |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mōlēs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 386
Further reading
[edit]- “molestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “molestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- molestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- I am pained, vexed, sorry: aegre, graviter, moleste fero aliquid (or with Acc. c. Inf. or quod)
- to be discontented, vexed at a thing; to chafe: aegre, graviter, moleste, indigne ferre aliquid
- I am pained, vexed, sorry: aegre, graviter, moleste fero aliquid (or with Acc. c. Inf. or quod)