molde

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English

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Noun

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molde (usually uncountable, plural moldes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of mold.

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Basque

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Noun

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molde

  1. manner

Middle English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔld(ə)/, /ˈmoːld(ə)/

Etymology 1

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

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Noun

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molde (uncountable)

  1. dirt (loose soil):
    1. ground (surface of the Earth)
    2. (figuratively) grave, deathbed
  2. The world, the planet (i.e., Earth)
  3. clay (mineral substance)
  4. (heraldry, rare) escutcheon
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • English: mold, mould, mool
  • Scots: muild, moud
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Etymology 2

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

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Noun

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molde (plural moldes)

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

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From Old French modle, mole, from Latin modulus.

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Noun

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molde (plural moldes)

  1. mold (cast, matrix)
  2. (figurative, rare) character, type
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Etymology 4

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Noun

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molde

  1. Alternative form of molle (mole)

Etymology 5

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Noun

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molde

  1. Alternative form of mowlde

Etymology 6

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Verb

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molde

  1. Alternative form of molden

Old English

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Etymology

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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).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmol.de/, [ˈmoɫ.de]

Noun

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molde f

  1. earth, soil
  2. the earth, world

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmɔw.d͡ʒi/ [ˈmɔʊ̯.d͡ʒi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmɔw.de/ [ˈmɔʊ̯.de]

  • Hyphenation: mol‧de

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish molde.

Noun

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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

Etymology 2

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Verb

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molde

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

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmolde/ [ˈmol̪.d̪e]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -olde
  • Syllabification: mol‧de

Etymology 1

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From Old Catalan motle, metathesized from Latin modulus.

Noun

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molde m (plural moldes)

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

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Verb

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molde

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

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