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moly
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)
- 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.
- 1980, Walter Shrewing, trans. Homer, The Odyssey, Oxford 1998, p.120:
- 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)
- (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.
- 1990, John Wegg, General Dynamics Aircraft and Their Predecessors (page 55)
- (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)
- 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
- A magic herb used by Odysseus to ward him from the spells of Circe.
- 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
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moky
English
Etymology
Compare Icelandic mökkvi (“cloud, mist”), mökkr (“a dense cloud”), Welsh mwg (“smoke”), and English muggy, muck.
Adjective
moky (comparative more moky, superlative most moky)
- (obsolete) misty; dark; murky
Anagrams
- kymo-
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