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μόλῐς

molis

hardly, barely

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Where it lives

Against Phormio 3 · 9.26/10k
To Demonicus 2 · 6.92/10k
Helen 6 · 6.13/10k
Against Diogeiton 1 · 5.91/10k
1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k
Electra 5 · 5.76/10k
Suppliants 3 · 4.26/10k
The Funeral Speech 51-61 1 · 3.98/10k
Machabaeourum III 2 · 3.98/10k
Against Apaturius 1 · 3.95/10k
On Hunting 3 · 3.3/10k
Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k

Densest 12 of 69 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. μόλις · molis — Beekes

μόλις [adv.] ‘hardly, barely’ (trag., Att.). «Ὁ» eVAR = μόγις. *ETYM No etymology. Earlier proposals (see Solmsen 1909: 169ff.) are problematic: connection with μῶλος ‘fight’, if from earlier ‘trouble’, is formally doubtful because of the root vocalism; that with μέλλω ‘to be about to do, hesitate, etc’, semantically uncompelling. See > μογέω. — [Beekes, s.v. μόλις, p. 1014]

2. μόλις · molis — Chantraine

μόλις : adv. qui se trouve en concurrence avec μόγις ; il est posthomérique et fréquent chez les trag., les com., en att., sauf PL, rare en gr. tardif. Sens : «avec peine », parfois « ἃ peine » (PL Thi. 142 b, Arist. Ph. 217 Ρ), où μόλις = «sans peine » (Æsch. Ag. 1082). Le mot subsiste en grec moderne. Ei.: Incertaine. Les rapprochements avec μέλλω («en hésitant »?), avec μάλα («seulement en utilisant sa force »?) … — [Chantraine, s.v. μόλις, p. 726]

3. μόλις · molis — Frisk

μόλις Adv. = μόγις, "kaum? (Trag., att.). — Etymologisch mehrdeutig: als ‚mit Mühe‘ zu μῶλος ‘*Mühsal’, Kampf’ (mit -oetwa nach μόγις) oder als „zögernd‘ zu μέλλω "im Begriff sein, zögern usw.’ oder gar als ‚‚(nur) mit Kraft‘ zu μάλα “sehr” ἢ Solmsen Wortforsch. 169ff., auch WP. 2, 291 u. 301 (Pok. 730 u. 746), W.-Hofmann 5. möles; überall m. weiterer Lit. — [Frisk, s.v. μόλις, p. 1222]

4. μόλῐς · molis — LSJ

only just, scarcely at all, not scarcely, quite, utterly

post-Hom. synonym of μόγις, prevailing in Trag., Com., and Att. prose, though in Pl. and later prose μόγις was preferred (in A. the Laur. Ms. gives each form twice, the same Ms. of S. μόλις always); μ. μέν, ἀλλʼ ὅμως ἠνεσχόμην Ar. Nu. 1363, cf. S. Ant. 290, 1105, El. 575, Ph. 329; ζῶντι καὶ μάλα μ. nay, only just alive, Pl. Tht. 142b (cod. W μόγις) ; μ. καὶ ἠρέμα πάσχειν scarcely at all . . , Arist. Metaph. 1019a31 (cod. Ab μόγις) ; ἢ ὅλως οὐκ ἔστιν ἢ μ. Id. Ph. 217b32; μ. πάνυ Eub. 30; πάνυ μ.

In the wild

μόλις · molis Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1082
μόλις · molis Aeschylus, Eumenides 864–865
μόλις · molis Aristophanes, Acharnians 1 (DIORISIS sentence 728)
μόλις · molis Aristophanes, Acharnians (DIORISIS sentence 678)
μόλις · molis Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 1059)
μόλις · molis Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 276)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. μόλῐς (scan p. 1014; entry #4142).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. μόλῐς (scan p. 726; entry #5369).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. μόλῐς (scan p. 1222; entry #3927).

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