molossus

• molosse

From Latin molossus, from Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós), properly "belonging to the Molossians", a people in the eastern part of Epirus.

molossus (plural molossuses or molossi)

1. (poetry) A metrical foot of three long syllables.

molossus

1. Obsolete form of molasses.

• molossos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔˈɫɔs.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈlɔs.sus]

molossus m (genitive molossī); second declension

1. A molosser dog (by ellipsis of canis)
2. A metrical foot consisting of three longs ( - - - ) (by ellipsis of pēs)

Second-declension noun.

• molossīnus
• molossicus
• Molossia

• Translingual: Molossus

• “molossus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “molossus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “molossus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers