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 Latin) IPA^(key): /moˈliː.num/, [mɔˈlʲiːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈli.num/, [moˈliːnum]

Noun

molīnum n (genitive molīnī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) a mill

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	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
  • → English: moline
  • Middle French: moulin
    • French: moulin
      • → English: moulin
  • Walloon: molén
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: molí
  • Occitan: molin
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: mulin
  • Lombard: molin, mulin
  • Piedmontese: molin, mulin
  • Romansch: mulin, mulegn
• Sardinian: molinu, mulinu
• Venetan: mulin, molin, mułin
• West Iberian
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: molín
    • Leonese: molín
    • Mirandese: molino
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: moỹo, moinno
    • Galician: muíño, muín
    • Portuguese: moinho
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: molino
• → Albanian: mulli
• → Breton: milin
• → Proto-West Germanic: *mulīnu, *mulī, *mulīnā (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: muilend
  • Irish: muileann
  • Scottish Gaelic: muileann
  • Manx: mwyllin
• → Welsh: melin

Adjective

molīnum

1. inflection of molīnus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. 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)