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
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..."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..."Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...diuidit, atque eum parte dextra tumuli circumire donec mollioris adscensus uiam inueniret iubet: ipse ab laeua, circuitu haud..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...scissum. Ut autem tam curvom sit, facit natura mollioris Italiae, in quam asperitas et altitudo Siciliae aestum relidit..."