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molior
molior
Latin
Verb
mōlior (present infinitive mōlīrī, perfect active mōlītus sum); fourth conjugation, deponent
- I strive, endeavor, work at.
- I rouse, bestir.
- I erect, construct.
- (figuratively) I undertake, attempt, stir up.
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)
- Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.
- You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
- Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)
Inflection
| Conjugation of molior (fourth conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | mōlior | mōlīris, mōlīre | mōlītur | mōlīmur | mōlīminī | mōliuntur |
| imperfect | mōliēbar | mōliēbāris, mōliēbāre | mōliēbātur | mōliēbāmur | mōliēbāminī | mōliēbantur | |
| future | mōliar | mōliēris, mōliēre | mōliētur | mōliēmur | mōliēminī | mōlientur | |
| perfect | mōlītus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | mōlītus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | mōlītus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | mōliar | mōliāris, mōliāre | mōliātur | mōliāmur | mōliāminī | mōliantur |
| imperfect | mōlīrer | mōlīrēris, mōlīrēre | mōlīrētur | mōlīrēmur | mōlīrēminī | mōlīrentur | |
| perfect | mōlītus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | mōlītus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | mōlīre | — | — | mōlīminī | — |
| future | — | mōlītor | mōlītor | — | — | mōliuntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | mōlīrī | mōlītus esse | mōlītūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | mōliēns | mōlītus | mōlītūrus | — | — | mōliendus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| mōlīrī | mōliendī | mōliendō | mōliendum | mōlītum | mōlītū | ||
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- molior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- molior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “molior”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
- to be busy with ambitious projects: magna moliri
- to meditate crime: scelera moliri (Att. 7. 11)
- to shake credit: fidem moliri (Liv. 6. 11. 8)
- to plot a revolution: novas res moliri (Verr. 2. 125)
- to meditate war: bellum moliri
- to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare