The story
- Latin · derived frommollis“soft”
- Late Latin · derived frommollificō
- Middle English · inherited frommollifien
- English todaymollify
From Middle English mollifien, from Late Latin mollificō, from Latin mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, Latin moll- + -ify.
Words from the same roots
Latinmollis all →
mullermullmulleinmollinmolassemolletonmollipilosemollisolparthemollin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.