# molde
## English
### Noun

molde (usually uncountable, plural moldes)
* Obsolete spelling of mold.
** 1567, Ovid, “The First Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, lines 724-5:And could not finde hir any where, assuredly he thought She did not live above the molde, ne drewe the vitall breath:

### Anagrams

* LModE, model

## Basque
### Noun

molde
* manner

## Middle English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔld(ə)/, /ˈmoːld(ə)/

### Etymology 1

From Old English molde, from Proto-West Germanic *moldu, from Proto-Germanic *muldō.

#### Alternative forms

* mold, moold, moolde, moulde, mowlde, mulde

#### Noun

molde (uncountable)
* dirt (loose soil):
** ground (surface of the Earth)
** (figuratively) grave, deathbed
* The world, the planet (i.e., Earth)
* clay (mineral substance)
* (heraldry, rare) escutcheon

##### Derived terms

* moldebred
* moldewarpe

##### Descendants

* English: mold, mould, mool
* Scots: muild, moud

##### References

* “mōld(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

From Old English molda, molde, from Proto-West Germanic *moldō, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥Hdʰṓ; exactly parallel to Sanskrit मूर्धन् (mūrdhan).

#### Alternative forms

* mold, moold, moolde, mowlde

#### Noun

molde (plural moldes)
* The top or crown of the head.
* (mistakenly) The uvula (as remedies applied to the crown supposedly affected it)
* (anatomy, rare) The divide between the cranial bones.

##### Descendants

* English: mold, mould

##### References

* “mōld(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3

From Old French modle, mole, from Latin modulus.

#### Alternative forms

* mold, moold, moolde, moulde, mulde

#### Noun

molde (plural moldes)
* mold (cast, matrix)
* (figurative, rare) character, type

##### Derived terms

* molden
* moldere
* moldyng

##### Descendants

* English: mold, mould
* Scots: muild

##### References

* “mōld(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

molde
* Alternative form of molle (“mole”)

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

molde
* Alternative form of mowlde

### Etymology 6
#### Verb

molde
* Alternative form of molden

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *muldō, from *mel- (“to grind”). Cognate with Old High German molta (dialectal German Molt), Old Norse mold (Swedish mull), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmol.de/, [ˈmoɫ.de]

### Noun

molde f
* earth, soil
* the earth, world

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: molde
** English: mold, mould, mool
** Scots: muild, moud

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɔw.d͡ʒi/ [ˈmɔʊ̯.d͡ʒi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɔw.d͡ʒi/ [ˈmɔʊ̯.d͡ʒi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmɔw.de/ [ˈmɔʊ̯.de]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmɔl.dɨ/ [ˈmɔɫ.dɨ]
* Hyphenation: mol‧de

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish molde.

#### Noun

molde m (plural moldes)
* mould, cast
* (by extension) model, example
    A escola foi o molde para toda a sua vida.School was a model for his whole life.
* (typography) printing mould

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

molde
* inflection of moldar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmolde/ [ˈmol̪.d̪e]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -olde
* Syllabification: mol‧de

### Etymology 1

From Old Catalan motle, metathesized from Latin modulus.

#### Noun

molde m (plural moldes)
* mold, cast
* pan, tin (for baking)

##### Derived terms

* amoldar
* escribano de molde
* letra de molde
* moldar
* moldear
* moldura
* pan de molde

##### Related terms

* módulo

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

molde
* inflection of moldar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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