English Explanatory Dictionary

molossus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A metrical foot of three long syllables.
noun
  1. Obsolete form of molasses.
name
  1. The son of Neoptolemus and Andromache, the eponymous founder of the Molossians.

Word forms

molossus molossuses molossi molosse

Etymology

From Latin molossus, from Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós), properly "belonging to the Molossians", a people in the eastern part of Epirus.

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