"molossus" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: molossuses [plural], molossi [plural]
Etymology: From Latin molossus, from Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós), properly "belonging to the Molossians", a people in the eastern part of Epirus. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|molossus}} Latin molossus, {{uder|en|grc|μολοσσός}} Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós) Head templates: {{en-noun|+|molossi}} molossus (plural molossuses or molossi)
  1. (poetry) A metrical foot of three long syllables. Categories (topical): Poetry Synonyms: molosse Translations (metrical foot): μολοσσός (molossós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), Molossus [masculine] (German), molossus [masculine] (Latin), extensipes [masculine] (Latin), pes hippius (Latin)

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /moˈlos.sus/ [Classical], [mɔˈɫ̪ɔs̠ːʊs̠] [Classical], /moˈlos.sus/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [moˈlɔsːus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From μολοσσός (molossós). Etymology templates: {{l|grc|μολοσσός}} μολοσσός (molossós) Head templates: {{la-noun|molossus<2>}} molossus m (genitive molossī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|molossus<2>}} Forms: molossī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], molossus [nominative, singular], molossī [nominative, plural], molossī [genitive, singular], molossōrum [genitive, plural], molossō [dative, singular], molossīs [dative, plural], molossum [accusative, singular], molossōs [accusative, plural], molossō [ablative, singular], molossīs [ablative, plural], molosse [singular, vocative], molossī [plural, vocative]
  1. A molosser dog Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-molossus-la-noun-K9bw-Mn6
  2. (poetry) A metrical foot ( - - - ) Tags: declension-2, masculine Categories (topical): Poetry Categories (lifeform): Dogs
    Sense id: en-molossus-la-noun-9U9ZifYs Disambiguation of Dogs: 40 60 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin entries with topic categories using raw markup, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Disambiguation of Latin entries with topic categories using raw markup: 35 65 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 31 69 Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: molossos Related terms: molossīnus, molossicus, Molossia

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