# moles
## English
### Noun

moles
* plural of mole

### Anagrams

* Melos, Solem, melos, moels

## Catalan
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.ləs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.les]

#### Noun

moles
* plural of mola (“millstone”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.ləs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.les]

#### Noun

moles
* plural of mola (“mass (large volume); sunfish; etc.”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmo.ləs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmo.les]

#### Verb

moles
* second-person singular present indicative of molar (“to mock”)

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.ləs]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.les]

#### Verb

moles
* second-person singular present indicative of molar (“to sharpen (dialectal)”)

## Danish
### Noun

moles c
* indefinite genitive singular of mole

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

moles f
* plural of mole

## Galician
### Verb

moles
* second-person singular present indicative of mulir

## Jamaican Creole
### Etymology

Derived from English molest.

### Verb

moles
* to molest
** 1995 February 8, Carolyn Cooper, Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture, Duke University Press, →ISBN:... infamieshan wi no gi If a man a moles mi an mi famili Mi naa ron fi poliis ar sikuoriti Mi uda chek fi mi ruud bwai kompini [We are not informers, we don't give information If someone is molesting me and my family I wouldn't run to […]

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *meh₃- (“to exert”) (though de Vaan reconstructs the Proto-Indo-European root as *melos (“trouble, obstacle”) instead). Cognate with Ancient Greek μῶλος (môlos, “turmoil”) and German mühen (“to labor, toil”). See also Latin mōs.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmoː.leːs/, [ˈmoːɫ̪eːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmo.les/, [ˈmɔːles]

### Noun

mōlēs f (genitive mōlis); third declension
* multitude, mass (of material)
    Synonyms: multitūdō, frequentia, cōpia, ūbertās, nūbēs
* (by extension) size
* rock, boulder, cliff, ridge, outcrop, knoll
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.149–152:est mōlēs nātīva locō rēs nōmina fēcit: appellant Saxum; pars bona montis eā est. huic Remus īnstiterat frūstrā, quō tempore frātrī prīma Palātīnae signa dedistis avēs.There is a ridge, that which gave natural names to the place: they call it the Rock; it forms a good part of the [Aventine] Hill. To this [place] Remus had uselessly embarked, at which time you, birds of the Palatine, gave foremost omens to his brother, [Romulus]. (See Aventine Hill.)
* heap, pile
    Synonyms: cumulus, massa, acervus
* (military) war machine
* weight, burden, heaviness
    Synonyms: onus, pondus, gravitās
* strife, endeavour, effort
    Synonyms: cōnātus, studium, opus, opera, labor, mōlīmen, cūra, intēnsiō, pulvis
** 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.38:quanta mole gesserat bellawith such efforts he had managed the wars
* difficulty, labor, trouble
    Synonyms: difficultās, īnfortūnium, cūra
* fortification, wall, rampart
    Synonyms: munitio, praesidium
* mass of soldiers, a large army
* mole, pier, jetty

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

#### Derived terms

* mōlēcula (New Latin)
* molestus
* mōlior

#### Descendants

* Catalan: mola, moll (see there for further descendants)
* Italian: mole
* Portuguese: mó
* Borrowings:
** → Ancient Greek: μόλος (mólos)
*** → Italian: molo
**** → Danish: mole
**** → English: mole
**** → French: môle
**** → German: Mole
**** → Hungarian: móló
**** → Norwegian Nynorsk: molo
**** → Polish: molo
**** → Russian: мол (mol)
** → English: mole
** → Portuguese: mole
** → Spanish: mole

### References

* ↑ 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

* “moles”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “moles”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "moles", 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)
* moles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* moles in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

## Portuguese
### Adjective

moles
* masculine/feminine plural of mole

### Noun

moles m
* plural of mol

### Noun

moles f
* plural of mole

## Spanish
### Adjective

moles m pl or f pl
* plural of mole

### Noun

moles m pl
* plural of mol
* plural of mole

### Verb

moles
* second-person singular present subjunctive of molar