molossus
/məˈlɒsəs/(also mollossus)
noun
1 Prosody. A metrical foot consisting of three long syllables.
2A Molossian dog.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in William Webbe (fl.?1566–1591), author. From classical Latin Molossus (also Molossos) metrical foot consisting of three long syllables, a Molossian dog, also as adjective, from ancient Greek Μολοσσός, adjective, also in Hellenistic Greek as noun in sense 1.
- mother's help
- mother ship
- Mother Shipton
- mothersick
- mothersickness
- mother's knee
- mother's little helper
- mothers' meeting
- mother's meeting
- mother's milk
- mother's pet
- mother's ruin
- mother's side
- mother's son
- mother-substitute
- Mothers' Union
- Mother's Union
- Mother Superior
- mother surrogate
- mother-symbol
- mother tincture
- mother-to-be
- mother tongue
- mother wasp
- Motherwell, Robert