Μόλος

Uncertain.

• It may derive from a noun μόλος (mólos, “toil”), which itself may reflect a pre-form *mōlos (“of toil”), whence perhaps Ancient Greek μῶλος (môlos) and Latin mōlēs.
• It may derive from an adjective *μολός (*molós, “running”), itself perhaps from the root *melh₃-, whence Ancient Greek βλώσκω (blṓskō)
• It may derive from a compound such as ἀγχίμολος (ankhímolos).
• It may derive from a non-Greek source.

Μόλος • (Mólos) m (genitive Μόλου); second declension

1. a male given name

• Μόλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “Μόλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Μόλος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• José Marcos Macedo; Daniel Kölligan (2020), “Cretan μωλεῖν 'Contend, Bring an Action to Court?”, in Mnemosyne‎^[1], volume 73, number 2, →ISSN, page 191
• Georgios Kostopoulos (23 April 2025), “Evidence for vowel nasalization in early Greek”, in Indo-European Linguistics‎^[2], volume 13, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, page 19