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

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtoː.leːs/, [ˈt̪oːɫ̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.les/, [ˈt̪ɔːles]

tōlēs m pl (genitive tōlium); third declension

1. tonsillitis
2. goitre

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

• tonsillae

• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “toles”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 693
• toles in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “toles”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.

toles

1. plural of tool (“tool”)