toles
English
Noun
toles
- plural of tole
Anagrams
Asturian
Etymology
From a contraction of the determiner toes (“all”) + feminine plural article les (“the”).
Contraction
toles f pl (masculine sg tol, feminine sg tola, neuter sg tolo, masculine plural tolos)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *tonslis, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”). Cognate with Latin tōnsillae.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtoː.ɫeːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪ɔː.les]
Noun
tōlēs m pl (genitive tōlium); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | tōlēs |
| genitive | tōlium |
| dative | tōlibus |
| accusative | tōlēs tōlīs |
| ablative | tōlibus |
| vocative | tōlēs |
Derived terms
References
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “toles”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 693
- "toles", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- toles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
Noun
toles
- plural of tool (“tool”)