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mollior

mollior is a Latin form of mollis, meaning “soft, gentle”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective or vocative singular masculine comparative adjective or nominative singular feminine comparative adjective or vocative singular feminine comparative adjective.

It can also be a form of mollio, “soften; calm, soothe; (mollis) soft, gentle, weak”.

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.12: … od si ita se habeat, non possit beatam praestare vitam sapientia. Haec mihi videtur delicatior, ut ita dicam, molliorque ratio, quam virtutis vis gravitasque postulat. quare teneamus Aristotelem et eius filium Nicomachum, cuius …

Ovid, Remedia amoris 529: Mollior es, neque abire potes, vinctusque teneris,

All forms of mollis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.