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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαλλός (mallós).
Pronunciation
Noun
mallus m (genitive mallī); second declension
- A lock of wool
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “mallus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mallus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- mallus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “mallus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “mallus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “mallus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly