molestus

== Latin == === Etymology === Seemingly from *melos, meles- n; -tus, with the first element an unattested neuter s-stem noun from the same root as mōlēs. Compare modestus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mɔˈɫɛs.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [moˈlɛs.tus] === Adjective === molestus (feminine molesta, neuter molestum, comparative molestior, superlative molestissimus); first/second-declension adjective troublesome, irksome, grievous, annoying, tiresome ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== molestia molestō ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: molest Italian: molesto Portuguese: molesto Spanish: molesto === References === === Further reading === “molestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “molestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “molestus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.