# moly
## English
### Etymology 1

From Latin mōly, from Ancient Greek μῶλυ (môlu) (probably a loanword).

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈməʊli/
* Rhymes: -əʊli
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

moly (countable and uncountable, plural molies)
* (Greek mythology) A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection iii:It excels Homers moly, cures this, falling sickness, and almost all other infirmities.
** 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 114:Or, propt on beds of amaranth and moly, / How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly,)
** 1980, Homer, translated by Walter Shrewing, The Odyssey, Oxford, published 1998, page 120:So spoke the Radiant One; then gave me the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly.
** 2018, Madeline Miller, Circe, Bloomsbury 2019, p. 113:
    I would need all the secret herbs of Dicte […] . I would need as well the rest of my moly stores.
* Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.

### Etymology 2

Clipping of molybdenum.

#### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈmɒli/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒli
* Homophone: molly

#### Noun

moly (uncountable)
* (informal) Molybdenum.
** 1990, John Wegg, General Dynamics Aircraft and Their Predecessors, page 55:The fuselage and tail unit were constructed of welded chrome-moly steel tubing, fabric covered, with two seats in one elongated open 'bathtub' cockpit.
* (slang) Molybdenum grease.

##### Derived terms

* moly cow

### Anagrams

* mylo-

## French
### Noun

moly m (plural molys)
* moly (plant)

### Further reading

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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Czech mol and Slovak moľ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmoj]
* Hyphenation: moly
* Rhymes: -oj

### Noun

moly (plural molyok)
* moth (a usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae)

#### Derived terms

* molyos
* molytalan
* barackmoly
* fenyőtű-aknázómoly
* fenyőtű-borzasmoly
* hagymamoly
* könyvmoly
* molyette
* molyirtó
* molykár
* molylepke
* molyrágás
* molyzsák
* barackrágó sarlósmoly
* mezei gabonamoly
* répaaknázó moly

### See also

* lepke
* pillangó
* Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

### References

* ↑ moly in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* moly in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Latin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῶλυ (môlu), which was most likely a loanword.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmoː.ly/, [ˈmoːlʲʏ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmo.li/, [ˈmɔːli]

### Noun

mōly n (genitive mōlyos); third declension
* Moly, a magic herb used by Odysseus to ward him from the spells of Circe.
* A plant comparable with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant, neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

#### Descendants

* → English: moly

### References

* “moly”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “moly”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “moly”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* moly in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 990.

## Slovincian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *malъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔ.lɪ/
* Rhymes: -ɔlɪ
* Syllabification: mo‧ly

### Adjective

moly (comparative mjênszy, superlative nomjênszy, derived adverb malô)
* little, small (not big)
    Antonym: wjelgjy

### Further reading

* Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) “mǻu̯lï”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎ (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 620