1. μῶλυς · mōlys — Beekes
The corpus record
μόλυς
molus
(mentally) enervated; dull, feeble, weak
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What it meant
2. μῶλυς · mōlys — Frisk
3. μόλυς · molys — LSJ
4. μῶλυς · mōlys — LSJ
soft, weak, feeble, μ. ἐπιστείβων, of a serpent, Nic. Th. 32, cf. Sch.
metaph., weak in intellect, dull, Demetr.Lac. Herc. 1014.58, Hsch. (who also has Comp.), cf. S. Fr. 693; also μωλύτερον φαίνεσθαι τὸν λόγον Socr. Ep. 30.14.
μῶλυς ῥίζα, = μῶλυ I, Lyc. 679.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.
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