molestus

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Latin

Etymology

Seemingly from *melos, meles- n +‎ -tus, with the first element an unattested neuter s-stem noun from the same root as mōlēs.[1] Compare modestus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

molestus (feminine molesta, neuter molestum, comparative molestior, superlative molestissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. troublesome, irksome, grievous, annoying, tiresome

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative molestus molesta molestum molestī molestae molesta
Genitive molestī molestae molestī molestōrum molestārum molestōrum
Dative molestō molestō molestīs
Accusative molestum molestam molestum molestōs molestās molesta
Ablative molestō molestā molestō molestīs
Vocative moleste molesta molestum molestī molestae molesta

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: molest
  • Italian: molesto
  • Portuguese: molesto
  • Spanish: molesto

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mōlēs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 386

Further reading

  • “molestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “molestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • molestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • I am pained, vexed, sorry: aegre, graviter, moleste fero aliquid (or with Acc. c. Inf. or quod)
    • to be discontented, vexed at a thing; to chafe: aegre, graviter, moleste, indigne ferre aliquid
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