μόλις

μόλις

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.lis/ → /ˈmo.lis/ → /ˈmo.lis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.lis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/

Adverb

μόλις • (mólis)

1. only just
2. hardly, scarcely, barely

Descendants

• Greek: μόλις (mólis)

Further reading

• μόλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “μόλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G3433 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • arduously idem, page 39.
  • barely idem, page 63.
  • difficulty idem, page 223.
  • dimly idem, page 225.
  • effort idem, page 263.
  • hardly idem, page 385.
  • ill idem, page 414.
  • laboriously idem, page 472.
  • little idem, page 495.
  • narrowly idem, page 551.
  • painfully idem, page 589.
  • reluctantly idem, page 692.
  • scarcely idem, page 737.
  • struggle idem, page 828.
  • toilsomely idem, page 880.

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόλις (mólis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
• Hyphenation: μό‧λις

Adverb

μόλις • (mólis)

1. barely
2. just

Conjunction

μόλις • (mólis)

1. as soon as, once