From Proto-Italic *morjōr, from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”).
Cognate with Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós, “mortal”), Proto-Germanic *murþaz, Proto-Celtic *marwos, Lithuanian mirti (“death”), Sanskrit मृत्यु (mṛtyú, “death”), Proto-Slavic *merti. Related to mors (“death”).
morior (present infinitive morī, perfect active mortuus sum); third conjugation iō-variant, deponent
indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
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first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
active | present | morior | moreris, morere |
moritur | morimur | moriminī | moriuntur | ||||||
imperfect | moriēbar | moriēbāris, moriēbāre |
moriēbātur | moriēbāmur | moriēbāminī | moriēbantur | |||||||
future | moriar | moriēris, moriēre |
moriētur | moriēmur | moriēminī | morientur | |||||||
perfect | mortuus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
pluperfect | mortuus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
future perfect | mortuus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
active | present | moriar | moriāris, moriāre |
moriātur | moriāmur | moriāminī | moriantur | ||||||
imperfect | morerer | morerēris, morerēre |
morerētur | morerēmur | morerēminī | morerentur | |||||||
perfect | mortuus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
pluperfect | mortuus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
active | present | — | morere | — | — | moriminī | — | ||||||
future | — | moritor | moritor | — | — | moriuntor | |||||||
non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
present | morī | — | moriēns | — | |||||||||
future | moritūrum esse | — | moritūrus | moriendus, moriundus | |||||||||
perfect | mortuum esse | — | mortuus | — | |||||||||
future perfect | mortuum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
perfect potential | moritūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
moriendī | moriendō | moriendum | moriendō | mortuum | mortuū |
(Several descendants reflect a fourth-conjugation variant (morior, morīrī) attested in Plautus, Ennius, and Ovid.)