different between coly vs moly

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

New Latin colius, probably from Ancient Greek ?????? (koliós, “a kind of woodpecker”).

Noun

coly (plural colies)

1. Any bird of either of the genera Colius or Urocolius, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.
   • 1999, Michael A. Mares, Mousebird, entry in Encyclopedia of Deserts, page 378,

     Coliiformes is the only order of birds endemic to Africa. Six species from two genera (Urocolius and Colius) are recognized, all of which are sedentary. Mousebirds (also known as colies) range through sub-Saharan open savannas and are often common in such areas.

Usage notes

Extant species of order Coliiformes are classified into the genera Colius and Urocolius, both in family Coliidae.

Synonyms

• (bird): mousebird

See also

• Coliiformes (order)
• Coliidae (family)

Anagrams

• cloy

English

Etymology 1

From Latin m?ly, from Ancient Greek ???? (môlu) (probably a loanword).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??li/
• Rhymes: -??li

Noun

moly (countable and uncountable, plural molies)

1. A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe.
   • 1980, Walter Shrewing, trans. Homer, The Odyssey, Oxford 1998, p.120:

     So spoke the Radiant One; then gave me the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly.

2. Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.

Etymology 2

Clipping of molybdenum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?li/
• Rhymes: -?li
• Homophone: molly

Noun

moly (uncountable)

1. (informal) molybdenum
   • 1990, John Wegg, General Dynamics Aircraft and Their Predecessors (page 55)

     The fuselage and tail unit were constructed of welded chrome-moly steel tubing, fabric covered, with two seats in one elongated open 'bathtub' cockpit.

2. (slang) molybdenum grease

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic language. Compare Czech mol and Slovak mo?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?moj]
• Hyphenation: moly
• Rhymes: -oj

Noun

moly (plural molyok)

1. moth (a usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• lepke
• pillangó
• Appendix:Hungarian words with ly

References

Further reading

• moly in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (môlu), which was most likely a loanword.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mo?.ly/, [?mo?l?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mo.li/, [?m??li]

Noun

m?ly n (genitive m?lyos); third declension

1. A magic herb used by Odysseus to ward him from the spells of Circe.
2. A plant comparable with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant, neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

• ? English: moly

References

• moly in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moly in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• moly in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moly in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 990