μόλις

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.lis/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/

Adverb

μόλις • (mólis)

only just
hardly, scarcely, barely

Descendants

Greek: μόλις (mólis)

Further reading

μόλις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“μόλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
G3433 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- arduously idem, page 39.
- barely idem, page 63.
- difficulty idem, page 223.
- dimly idem, page 225.
- effort idem, page 263.
- hardly idem, page 385.
- ill idem, page 414.
- laboriously idem, page 472.
- little idem, page 495.
- narrowly idem, page 551.
- painfully idem, page 589.
- reluctantly idem, page 692.
- scarcely idem, page 737.
- struggle idem, page 828.
- toilsomely idem, page 880.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μόλις (mólis).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmo.lis/
Hyphenation: μό‧λις

Adverb

μόλις • (mólis)

barely
just

Conjunction

μόλις • (mólis)

as soon as, once

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