mors

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Verb

mors

  1. second-person singular present indicative of morir

Danish

Noun

mors c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of mor

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

mors

  1. inflection of morsen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin morsus.

Pronunciation

Noun

mors m (plural mors)

  1. (equestrianism) bit

Derived terms

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mortis, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”). Related to morior (“I die”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mors f (genitive mortis); third declension

  1. death
    Synonyms: fūnus, exitus, perniciēs, interitus, fātum, somnus, fīnis, sopor
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.696:
      Nam quia nec fātō, meritā nec morte perībat, .
      For since was perishing neither by fate, nor by a death she deserved, .
  2. corpse, dead body
    Synonyms: cadāver, corpus, fūnus, caedēs
  3. annihilation

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mors mortēs
Genitive mortis mortium
Dative mortī mortibus
Accusative mortem mortēs
mortīs
Ablative morte mortibus
Vocative mors mortēs

Hyponyms

Related terms

Descendants

References

  • “mors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mors 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)
  • mors in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to depart this life: mortem (diem supremum) obire
    • an untimely death: mors immatura or praematura
    • to commit suicide: mortem sibi consciscere
    • to meet death (by violence): mortem oppetere
    • to die for one's country: mortem occumbere pro patria
    • to poison oneself: veneno sibi mortem consciscere
    • to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
    • some one's death has plunged me in grief: mors alicuius luctum mihi attulit
    • to threaten some one with death, crucifixion, torture, war: minitari (minari) alicui mortem, crucem et tormenta, bellum
    • to beg for life: mortem deprecari (B. G. 7. 40. 6)
  • “mors”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle French

Noun

mors f

  1. plural of mort

Norman

Etymology

From Latin morsus.

Noun

mors m (plural mors)

  1. (Jersey, equestrianism) bit

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Possibly a borrowing from Latin mors (“death”).

Noun

mors n (definite singular morset, indefinite plural mors, definite plural morsa or morsene)

  1. corpse
Usage notes

Using mors instead of the more common lik is a special usage found among health workers. The use of the term in this way is unknown in the general population.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mors

  1. imperative of morse

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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morsy

Etymology

Borrowed from French morse, from Russian мо́рж (mórž), from a Uralic language. Compare Finnish mursu, Skolt Sami moršša.

Pronunciation

Noun

mors m animal

  1. walrus (Arctic mammal)

Declension

Declension of mors
singular plural
nominative mors morsy
genitive morsa morsów
dative morsowi morsom
accusative morsa morsy
instrumental morsem morsami
locative morsie morsach
vocative morsie morsy

Derived terms

adjectives

Noun

mors m pers

  1. winter swimmer

Declension

Declension of mors
singular plural
nominative mors morsy
genitive morsa morsów
dative morsowi morsom
accusative morsa morsów
instrumental morsem morsami
locative morsie morsach
vocative morsie morsy

Derived terms

verb

Further reading

  • mors in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mors in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology 1

Possibly an alteration of morgon (“morning”), or from Tavringer Romani mus, muss, musij, mossj, måssj (“man, person”), from Romani murś (“man”). Related to Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “man”). Compare English mush.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Interjection

mors!

  1. (colloquial) hi, hello
  2. (colloquial) bye
Derived terms
See also
  • hej (has a list of greetings and farewells)

References

  • mors in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • Gerd Carling (2005) “musch”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 93

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Noun

mors

  1. indefinite genitive singular of mor

Anagrams

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French morse.

Noun

mors (definite accusative morsu, plural morslar)

  1. walrus
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