The story
- Latin · derived frommollis“soft”
- French · borrowed frommolleton
- English todaymolleton
French molleton, from molle + -et (“diminutive”) + -on (“diminutive”), from Latin mollis (“soft”).
Words from the same roots
Latinmollis all →
mullermullmulleinmollifymollinmolassemollipilosemollisolparthemollin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.