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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From o-grade of the root of μείρομαι (meíromai, “to receive as one's portion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mó.ros/ → /ˈmo.ros/ → /ˈmo.ros/
Noun
μόρος • (móros) m (genitive μόρου); second declension
- fate, destiny
- doom, death
- corpse
- a measure of land in Locris
Inflection
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Further reading
- “μόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μόρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μόρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μόρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μόρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.