† molebatn.

Forms: 1500s–1600s molebout, 1600s molebaut, 1600s moleboute, 1600s molebut, 1600s mole-butt, 1600s mole-pout (transmission error), 1700s–1800s molebat, 1800s–1900s molebut.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French molebout.

Etymology: < Middle French molebout (1554, in an isolated example, in which the word may in fact represent an Occitan word written with Middle French spelling conventions): see further below. Compare slightly later mole n.⁶Middle French molebout is recorded by G. Rondelet in De Piscibus Marinis and explained by him to be a compound of Occitan mòla (see mole n.⁶) and the Catalan synonym bot (Rondelet uses Middle French spelling conventions): 1554 G. Rondelet De Piscibus Marinis 424 Mola in nostro mari aliquando capitur, sed rarissime... Massilienses mole vocant a rotunditate, quod molae molendinariae similis sit. Hispani bout appellant. Nonnulli ex nostris qui Provinciam, Hispaniamque frequentarunt, utraque conjuncta appellatione molebout nominant. The second element is apparently frequently assimilated to butt n.¹ In form mole-pout probably conflated with pout n.¹, and in form molebat perhaps with bat n.¹: however, compare also turbot n. and forms s.v. Both Occitan mola and Catalan bot designate the sunfish, Mola mola. In the passage translated in quot. 1601 Pliny has classical Latin porcus , lit. ‘pig’, the fish probably being so called on account of the grunting noises it makes (see quot. 1598). This may in turn have led to confusion with porpoise n. (see quot. 1672).

Obsolete.

The ocean sunfish, Mola mola; = mola n.¹ 2. Cf. mole n.⁶ 1.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Molidae (ocean sun-fish) > member of genus Mola

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moonfish1646

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sun perch1804

ocean sunfish1900

short diodon-

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Bota, a fish that grunteth called a Molebout.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 429 The greatest of all other fishes is the Mole-bout.

1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Bóta, a..Mole-pout.

1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 129 Mola..the Molebut.

1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 29 Porpuise or Porpiss, Molebut, Sea Hog, Sus Marinus, Tursion.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Mole-butt. See Porpus.

1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ A molebat (fish) Orthragoriscus.

1759 tr. M. Adanson Voy. Senegal 178 There you might see pilchards, rock-fish, mullets or gull-fish of different sorts; mole-bats, with other fishes very little known.

1831 M. Seoane Neuman & Baretti's Dict. Spanish & Eng. Langs. (ed. 5) I. 740/1 Ruéda,... Short sun-fish, molebut. Tetrodon molu, L.

1895 tr. M. Adanson in Littell's Living Age 16 Nov. 438/1 Every day..I had new fishes and new shells to observe. Now it was a pilchard, now a molebat; one time a purple fish [etc.].

1902 Country Life 24 May 650/1 They are not ocean sunfishes—the gigantic molebuts sometimes found on our coasts—but a small fish from the rivers of North America.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	molebat
释义	† molebatn. Forms: 1500s–1600s molebout, 1600s molebaut, 1600s moleboute, 1600s molebut, 1600s mole-butt, 1600s mole-pout (transmission error), 1700s–1800s molebat, 1800s–1900s molebut. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French molebout. Etymology: < Middle French molebout (1554, in an isolated example, in which the word may in fact represent an Occitan word written with Middle French spelling conventions): see further below. Compare slightly later mole n.⁶Middle French molebout is recorded by G. Rondelet in De Piscibus Marinis and explained by him to be a compound of Occitan mòla (see mole n.⁶) and the Catalan synonym bot (Rondelet uses Middle French spelling conventions): 1554 G. Rondelet De Piscibus Marinis 424 Mola in nostro mari aliquando capitur, sed rarissime... Massilienses mole vocant a rotunditate, quod molae molendinariae similis sit. Hispani bout appellant. Nonnulli ex nostris qui Provinciam, Hispaniamque frequentarunt, utraque conjuncta appellatione molebout nominant. The second element is apparently frequently assimilated to butt n.¹ In form mole-pout probably conflated with pout n.¹, and in form molebat perhaps with bat n.¹: however, compare also turbot n. and forms s.v. Both Occitan mola and Catalan bot designate the sunfish, Mola mola. In the passage translated in quot. 1601 Pliny has classical Latin porcus , lit. ‘pig’, the fish probably being so called on account of the grunting noises it makes (see quot. 1598). This may in turn have led to confusion with porpoise n. (see quot. 1672). Obsolete. The ocean sunfish, Mola mola; = mola n.¹ 2. Cf. mole n.⁶ 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Molidae (ocean sun-fish) > member of genus Mola molebat1598 mole1601 sunfisha1630 moonfish1646 mola1678 sun perch1804 ocean sunfish1900 short diodon- 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Bota, a fish that grunteth called a Molebout. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 429 The greatest of all other fishes is the Mole-bout. 1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Bóta, a..Mole-pout. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 129 Mola..the Molebut. 1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 29 Porpuise or Porpiss, Molebut, Sea Hog, Sus Marinus, Tursion. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Mole-butt. See Porpus. 1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ A molebat (fish) Orthragoriscus. 1759 tr. M. Adanson Voy. Senegal 178 There you might see pilchards, rock-fish, mullets or gull-fish of different sorts; mole-bats, with other fishes very little known. 1831 M. Seoane Neuman & Baretti's Dict. Spanish & Eng. Langs. (ed. 5) I. 740/1 Ruéda,... Short sun-fish, molebut. Tetrodon molu, L. 1895 tr. M. Adanson in Littell's Living Age 16 Nov. 438/1 Every day..I had new fishes and new shells to observe. Now it was a pilchard, now a molebat; one time a purple fish [etc.]. 1902 Country Life 24 May 650/1 They are not ocean sunfishes—the gigantic molebuts sometimes found on our coasts—but a small fish from the rivers of North America. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1598
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