molde

molde (usually uncountable, plural moldes)

1. Obsolete spelling of mold.
   • 1567, Ovid, “The First Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC, lines 724-5:

     And could not finde hir any where, assuredly he thought
     She did not live above the molde, ne drewe the vitall breath:

• LModE, model

molde

1. manner

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔld(ə)/, /ˈmoːld(ə)/

From Old English molde, from Proto-West Germanic *moldu, from Proto-Germanic *muldō.

• mold, moold, moolde, moulde, mowlde, mulde

molde (uncountable)

2. dirt (loose soil):
   1. ground (surface of the Earth)
   2. (figuratively) grave, deathbed
3. The world, the planet (i.e., Earth)
4. clay (mineral substance)
5. (heraldry, rare) escutcheon

• moldebred
• moldewarpe

• English: mold, mould, mool
• Scots: muild, moud

• “mōld(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old English molda, molde, from Proto-West Germanic *moldō, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥Hdʰṓ; exactly parallel to Sanskrit मूर्धन् (mūrdhan).

• mold, moold, moolde, mowlde

molde (plural moldes)

2. The top or crown of the head.
3. (mistakenly) The uvula (as remedies applied to the crown supposedly affected it)
4. (anatomy, rare) The divide between the cranial bones.

• English: mold, mould

• “mōld(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old French modle, mole, from Latin modulus.

• mold, moold, moolde, moulde, mulde

molde (plural moldes)

2. mold (cast, matrix)
3. (figurative, rare) character, type

• molden
• moldere
• moldyng

• English: mold, mould
• Scots: muild

• “mōld(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

molde

1. alternative form of molle (“mole”)

molde

1. alternative form of mowlde

molde

1. alternative form of molden

From Proto-Germanic *muldō, from *mel- (“to grind”). Cognate with Old High German molta (dialectal German Molt), Old Norse mold (Swedish mull), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmol.de/, [ˈmoɫ.de]

molde f

1. earth, soil
2. the earth, 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 mannes moldan.

     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's earth.

Weak n-stem:

• græsmolde

• Middle English: molde
  • English: mold, mould, mool
  • Scots: muild, moud

• Hyphenation: mol‧de

Borrowed from Spanish molde.

molde m (plural moldes)

1. mould, cast
2. (by extension) model, example

   A escola foi o molde para toda a sua vida.

   School was a model for his whole life.

3. (typography) printing mould

molde

1. inflection of moldar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈmolde/ [ˈmol̪.d̪e]

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• Rhymes: -olde
• Syllabification: mol‧de

From Old Catalan motle, metathesized from Latin modulus.

molde m (plural moldes)

1. mold, cast
2. pan, tin (for baking)

molde

1. inflection of moldar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “molde”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024