moale

English

Noun

moale (plural moales)

1. Obsolete form of mole.
   • 1614, Gervase Markham, chapter 7, in The Second Booke of the English Husbandman‎, London: John Browne, pages 45–46:

     […] but if you finde that their encrease and continuance multiply with your labour, it shall be then good for you to plant in diuers places of your Garden the hearbe called Palma Christi, in other places Garlicke and in other places Onyons, and it is an assured rule that no Moale will come néere where they grow for the strength and violence of their smell, is poysonous and deadly to those blinde vermines.

Romanian

Alternative forms

• móle (obsolete). Compare Aromanian moli.

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mollis, mollem, from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dus (“soft, weak”), from *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”). Compare Aromanian moali.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmo̯a.le/

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Adjective

moale m or f or n (plural moi)

1. soft
2. weak

   Synonym: slab

Declension

Declension of moale

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	moale		moale		moi	moi
	definite	moalele		moalea		moii	moile
genitive- dative	indefinite	moale		moi		moi	moi
	definite	moalelui		moii		moilor	moilor

Derived terms

• moliciune
• molatic
• moleși
• molâu

Related terms

• moină
• moinos
• moleață
• molicel
• molicios
• muia
• muiant
• muiat
• muiere
• muietor

See also

• blând