mollissimo
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);
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.)
Examples
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...censeret, sed cui in consilio esset; mollissimo genere poenae contentum esse debere patrem dixit in filio adulescentulo impulso..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...versibus: et Thucydidi hyper hemisy Kares ephanesan ex mollissimo rhythmorum genere excidit. LXXIX. Sed quia omnem oratoriam compositionem..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...altiorem memoriam Oedipodis huc venientis et illo mollissimo carmine quaenam essent ipsa haec loca requirentis species quaedam commovit..."
