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Latin
Etymology
mos (“custom”) + Teutonicus (“Teuton, German”). Although other peoples (including the French) sometimes practised it, the custom was most closely associated with the Germans.
Pronunciation
Noun
mōs Teutonicus m sg (genitive mōris Teutonicī); third declension
- the medieval custom, common among Germans and some others who died in Muslim lands, of dismembering the body of a dead person, boiling the parts in water or wine to separate the flesh from the bones, and transporting the bones back to the person's homeland
1735 September, Johannes Christianus Faber, Dissertatio Inauguralis de Conscensione Tori Conjugalis, page 28:[…] , domum ac lectum Caroli VIII? observat BAELIUS, omnes ad MOREM TEUTONICUM respicientes Annam Britannicam habuisse pro uxore Maximiliani, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1777, Samuel Strykius, Usus moderni Pandectarum, continuatio tertia, libro XXIII usque ad XXXVIII, page 952:Et licet leges romanae circa testamenta sint recepta; tamen id fallit, ubi principium vel juris vel moris Teutonici repugnat.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Third-declension noun with a second-declension adjective, singular only.