molde (usuallyuncountable,pluralmoldes)
- Obsolete spelling ofmold.
1567,Ovid, “The First Booke”, inArthur Golding, transl.,The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […],→OCLC, lines724-5:And could not finde hir any where, assuredly he thought
She did not live above themolde, ne drewe the vitall breath:
molde
- manner
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔld(ə)/,/ˈmoːld(ə)/
FromOld Englishmolde, fromProto-West Germanic*moldu, fromProto-Germanic*muldō.
molde (uncountable)
- dirt(loosesoil):
- ground(surface of theEarth)
- (figuratively)grave,deathbed
- Theworld, theplanet (i.e.,Earth)
- clay(mineral substance)
- (heraldry, rare)escutcheon
FromOld Englishmolda,molde, fromProto-West Germanic*moldō, fromProto-Indo-European*ml̥Hdʰṓ; exactly parallel toSanskritमूर्धन्(mūrdhan).
molde (pluralmoldes)
- Thetop orcrown of the head.
- (mistakenly) Theuvula(as remedies applied to the crown supposedly affected it)
- (anatomy, rare) Thedivide between thecranialbones.
FromOld Frenchmodle,mole, fromLatinmodulus.
molde (pluralmoldes)
- mold(cast,matrix)
- (figurative, rare)character,type
molde
- alternative form ofmolle(“mole”)
molde
- alternative form ofmowlde
molde
- alternative form ofmolden
FromProto-Germanic*muldō, from*mel-(“to grind”). Cognate withOld High Germanmolta (dialectalGermanMolt),Old Norsemold (Swedishmull),Gothic𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰(mulda).
molde f
- earth,soil
- theearth,world
11th century,Against a dwarf:Þænne eft þæt galdor, þæt hēr æfter cweð, man sċeal singan, ǣrest on þæt wynstre ēare, þænne on þæt swīðre ēare, þænne hūfan þæs mannesmoldan.- Then afterwards, the spell, that will be spoken hereafter, one should sing at first in the left ear, then in the right ear, then to the top of man'searth.
Weakn-stem:
Borrowed fromSpanishmolde.
molde m (pluralmoldes)
- mould,cast
- (by extension)model,example
A escola foi omolde para toda a sua vida.- School was amodel for his whole life.
- (typography) printingmould
molde
- inflection ofmoldar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
- IPA(key): /ˈmolde/[ˈmol̪.d̪e]
- Rhymes:-olde
- Syllabification:mol‧de
FromOld Catalanmotle, metathesized fromLatinmodulus.
molde m (pluralmoldes)
- mold,cast
- pan,tin (for baking)
molde
- inflection ofmoldar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
