molestus

Latin

Etymology

Seemingly from *melos, meles- n +‎ -tus, with the first element an unattested neuter s-stem noun from the same root as mōlēs.^[1] Compare modestus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /moˈles.tus/, [mɔˈɫ̪ɛs̠t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈles.tus/, [moˈlɛst̪us]

Adjective

molestus (feminine molesta, neuter molestum, comparative molestior, superlative molestissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. troublesome, irksome, grievous, annoying, tiresome

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	molestus	molesta	molestum		molestī	molestae	molesta
Genitive	molestī	molestae	molestī		molestōrum	molestārum	molestōrum
Dative	molestō		molestō		molestīs
Accusative	molestum	molestam	molestum		molestōs	molestās	molesta
Ablative	molestō	molestā	molestō		molestīs
Vocative	moleste	molesta	molestum		molestī	molestae	molesta

Derived terms

• molestia
• molestō

Descendants

• Catalan: molest
• Italian: molesto
• Portuguese: molesto
• Spanish: molesto

References

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mōlēs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 386

Further reading

• “molestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “molestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• molestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I am pained, vexed, sorry: aegre, graviter, moleste fero aliquid (or with Acc. c. Inf. or quod)
    
  • to be discontented, vexed at a thing; to chafe: aegre, graviter, moleste, indigne ferre aliquid