molossus
noun
molossus is a noun meaning “A metrical foot of three long syllables” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-L-O-S-S-U-S, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of molossus is molossuses or molossi.
What does molossus mean?
noun
- 1
A metrical foot of three long syllables.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of molossus
- molossuses plural
- molossi plural
- molosse
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is molossus?
Molossus appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does molossus come from?
From Latin molossus, from Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós), properly "belonging to the Molossians", a people in the eastern part of Epirus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).