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

molle

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of mollë

• IPA^(key): /mɔl/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʎe/

molle m or f (plural molles)

1. (Galician-Asturian) alternative form of mol

molle

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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “molle”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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

From Latin mollem.

molle m or f by sense (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): [ˈmɔl.lɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔl.le]

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, 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)

1. mole (Talpa europea)

   Synonyms: moldewarpe, wont

• English: mole

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

Often derived from Old English myl (“dust, powder”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan (“to grind”),^[1] but the vocalism in /u/ would then be difficult to explain given the dialectal provenance of molle's attestations.^[2] Derivation from a related formation without umlaut or a continental Germanic cognate of myl has been proposed, but borrowing or at least influence from Middle French mol (“soft”) or its etymon Latin mollis) is also possible, especially given the word's late attestation; see mollen.^[3]

• mol, moll, mul, mull, mulle

• IPA^(key): /mɔl/, /mul/

molle (uncountable)

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

• English: mull
• Middle Scots: moll
  • Scots: mow (obsolete)

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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025