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Latin
Etymology
From mōlēs (“a pile, heap”).
Pronunciation
Verb
mōlior (present infinitive mōlīrī or mōlīrier, perfect active mōlītus sum); fourth conjugation, deponent
- to strive, endeavor, work at
- to put in motion, shake, move
- to rouse, bestir
- to undertake, start, begin, commence
- to erect, construct
- (figuratively) to attempt, stir up
- c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Persa 5.2.8:
- Quia eī fidem nōn habuī argentī, eō mihi eās māchinās mōlītu'st.
- Because I had no trust in him about the silver, he laid me these machinations.
63 BCE,
Cicero,
Catiline Orations 1.8:
- Nihil agis, nihil mōlīris, nihil cōgitās quod nōn ego nōn modo audiam sed etiam videam plānēque sentiam.
- You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE,
Virgil,
Georgics 1.268–272:
- Quippe etiam fēstīs quaedam exercēre diēbus
fās et iūra sinunt: rīvōs dēdūcere nūlla
rēligiō vetuit, segetī praetendere saepem,
īnsidiās avibus mōlīrī, incendere veprēs,
bālantumque gregem fluviō mersāre salūbrī.- Of course, even on holidays to do some tasks
divine order and laws allow: to guide down the rills no
religion has forbidden, to lay a hedge in front of a crop,
to set the birds traps, to burn bushes,
to bathe the bleating herd in the clean river.
Conjugation
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Synonyms
- (strive): lūctor, ēlabōrō, certō, cōnītor, cōnor, temptō, affectō, tendō, quaerō, studeō, contendō, appetō, adnītor, labōrō, pugnō, ēnītor, perīclitor, nītor, spectō
- (construct): aedificō, exaedificō, inaedificō, struō, cōnstruō, condō, compōnō, fundō, cōnstituō, exstruō, statuō
- (start): incohō, exōrdior, occipiō, incipiō, coepiō, ōrdior, initiō, ineō, ingredior, aggredior, sūmō, committō, exorior
- (rouse): cieō, irrītō, stimulō, impellō, concitō, instigō, instinguō, exciō, ădhortor, inflammō, flammō, sollicitō, incendō, ērigō
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “start”): subsistō, dēsistō, cessō
- (antonym(s) of “rouse”): domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, plācō, restinguō, dēlēniō, coerceō, mītigō, commītigō, ēlevō, levō, allevō, alleviō
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “molior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- molior in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “molior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- molior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
- to be busy with ambitious projects: magna moliri
- to meditate crime: scelera moliri (Att. 7. 11)
- to shake credit: fidem moliri (Liv. 6. 11. 8)
- to plot a revolution: novas res moliri (Verr. 2. 125)
- to meditate war: bellum moliri