toles

toles

1. plural of tole

• TESOL, lotes, stole, telos

From a contraction of the determiner toes (“all”) + feminine plural article les (“the”).

toles f pl (masculine sg tol, feminine sg tola, neuter sg tolo, masculine plural tolos)

1. all the

Uncertain, said to be from Proto-Italic *tonslis, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”). Cognate with Latin tōnsillae.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtoː.leːs/, [ˈtoː.ɫeːs]

tōlēs m (genitive tōlium); third declension

1. tonsillitis
2. goitre

Third declension i-stem.

• Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (2001), “toles”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of André J., 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck, page 693
• toles in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• toles in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

toles

1. plural of tool (“tool”)