Comparative evidence

meh₃

• Lat. mōlior -īrī ‘build up’, ‘engineer’, ‘make efforts’, ‘strive’, ‘to labour at’, ‘set in motion’ (OLD: 1126-1127)

• Lat. mōlēs -is, f. ‘large mass’, ‘lump’, ‘a thing of great size or bulk’, ‘a massive structure or building’, ‘vast size’, ‘hugeness’ , ‘effort’, ‘trouble’, ‘force’ (OLD: 1126)

References

OLD = Glare, P. G. W. 1968. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.