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Latin
Etymology
From mōlior (“to strive, endeavor, undertake”) + -mentum.
Noun
mōlīmentum n (genitive mōlīmentī); second declension
- exertion, effort, endeavour
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.34:
- Praeterea se neque sine exercitu in eas partes Galliae venire audere quas Caesar possideret, neque exercitum sine magno commeatu atque molimento in unum locum contrahere posse.
- That, besides, neither dare he go without an army into those parts of Gaul which Caesar had possession of, nor could he, without great expense and trouble, draw his army together to one place.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “molimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “molimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- molimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.