mōles — Lewis & Short
a shapeless, huge, heavy mass, huge bulk
The corpus record — Latin
moles
moles · f
a shapeless, huge, heavy mass, huge bulk
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Ludus Septem Sapientum 2 · 15.16/10k
- Punica 78 · 10.22/10k
- Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
- De Bello Alexandrino 9 · 8.63/10k
- Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
- Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
- de Bello Gothico 3 · 7.44/10k
- Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
- Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
- de consulatu Stilichonis 5 · 6.59/10k
- de bello Gildonico 2 · 6.32/10k
- De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Densest 12 of 108 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
Attestations
- moles Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.9
- mole Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.3.5
- mole Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.5.18
- mole Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.8.2
- molibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.10.2
- molem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.3.3
6 of 605 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan p. 434; entry #6991 Review: Under source audit
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