molior
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Latin
Etymology
From mōlēs (“a pile, heap”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmoː.li.or/, [ˈmoːlʲiɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmo.li.or/, [ˈmɔːlior]
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.
- Quia eī fidem nōn habuī argentī, eō mihi eās māchinās mōlītu'st.
- 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.
- Nihil agis, nihil mōlīris, nihil cōgitās quod nōn ego nōn modo audiam sed etiam videam plānēque sentiam.
- 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.
- Of course, even on holidays to do some tasks
- Quippe etiam fēstīs quaedam exercēre diēbus
- c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Persa 5.2.8:
Conjugation
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | mōlior | mōlīris, mōlīre |
mōlītur | mōlīmur | mōlīminī | mōliuntur | ||||||
| imperfect | mōliēbar | mōliēbāris, mōliēbāre |
mōliēbātur | mōliēbāmur | mōliēbāminī | mōliēbantur | |||||||
| future | mōliar | mōliēris, mōliēre |
mōliētur | mōliēmur | mōliēminī | mōlientur | |||||||
| perfect | mōlītus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | mōlītus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| future perfect | mōlītus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | mōliar | mōliāris, mōliāre |
mōliātur | mōliāmur | mōliāminī | mōliantur | ||||||
| imperfect | mōlīrer | mōlīrēris, mōlīrēre |
mōlīrētur | mōlīrēmur | mōlīrēminī | mōlīrentur | |||||||
| perfect | mōlītus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | mōlītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | mōlīre | — | — | mōlīminī | — | ||||||
| future | — | mōlītor | mōlītor | — | — | mōliuntor | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | mōlīrī, mōlīrier1 |
— | mōliēns | — | |||||||||
| future | mōlītūrum esse | — | mōlītūrus | mōliendus, mōliundus | |||||||||
| perfect | mōlītum esse | — | mōlītus | — | |||||||||
| future perfect | mōlītum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | mōlītūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| mōliendī | mōliendō | mōliendum | mōliendō | mōlītum | mōlītū | ||||||||
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
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Related terms
References
- “molior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- molior in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), 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
- to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
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