molinum
Latin
Alternative forms
- molīna
Etymology
Substantivization of the neuter of the adjective molīnus, from molō, or a shortening of saxum molīnum ("grinding stone").
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /moˈliː.num/, [mɔˈlʲiːnʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /moˈli.num/, [moˈliːnum]
Noun
molīnum n (genitive molīnī); second declension
- (Late Latin) a mill[1]
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | molīnum | molīna |
Genitive | molīnī | molīnōrum |
Dative | molīnō | molīnīs |
Accusative | molīnum | molīna |
Ablative | molīnō | molīnīs |
Vocative | molīnum | molīna |
Related terms
- molīnārius
Descendants
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: mulino, molino
- Sicilian: mulinu
- Old French: molin
- Middle French: moulin
- French: moulin
- Walloon: molén
- Middle French: moulin
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: molí
- Occitan: molin
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: mulin
- Romansch: mulin, mulegn
- Sardinian: molinu, mulinu
- Venetian: mulin, molin, mułin
- West Iberian
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: molín
- Leonese: molín
- Mirandese: molino
- Old Portuguese: moỹo, moinno
- Galician: muíño, muín
- Portuguese: moinho
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: molino
- Old Leonese:
- → Albanian: mulli
- → Breton: milin
- → Proto-West Germanic: *mulīnu (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Irish: muilend
- Irish: muileann
- Scottish Gaelic: muileann
- → Welsh: melin
Adjective
molīnum
- inflection of molīnus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- molinum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- http://latinlexicon.org/definition.php?p1=2036585