mollioris
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mollis, molle, mollior -or -us, mollissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
soft (cushion/grass); flexible/supple/loose/pliant; mild/tolerable; easy; calm;; weak; cowardly; unmanly; effeminate; womanish; pathic; tender (women/youths);; conciliatory/peaceful; complaisant; kindly; impressionable/sensitive; feeble;; tender, gentle; smooth, relaxing; languid (movement); amorous (writings);
gen. sg. (m./f.)gen. sg. (n.)
Examples
- L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...quarum maxima in pestilentia culpa est. Oues uero mollioris naturae, quo propiora terris ferunt capita, correptas esse..." - M
VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...audis. non morienti pater adsedi, non aegri caput molliori sede conposui, non fatigatum latus mutavi, non spiritum excepi..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...diuidit, atque eum parte dextra tumuli circumire donec mollioris adscensus uiam inueniret iubet: ipse ab laeua, circuitu haud..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...scissum. Ut autem tam curvom sit, facit natura mollioris Italiae, in quam asperitas et altitudo Siciliae aestum relidit..."