moralis

See also: morális

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *mōs

Latin mōs

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin moralis

From mōs (“manner, custom, way; law”) + -ālis. First used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [moːˈraː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈraː.lis]

Adjective

mōrālis (neuter mōrāle, adverb mōrāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Of or pertaining to manners, morals or ethics; moral.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	mōrālis	mōrāle		mōrālēs	mōrālia
genitive	mōrālis			mōrālium
dative	mōrālī			mōrālibus
accusative	mōrālem	mōrāle		mōrālīs mōrālēs	mōrālia
ablative	mōrālī			mōrālibus
vocative	mōrālis	mōrāle		mōrālēs	mōrālia

Derived terms

• mōrālitās
• mōrāliter

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: moral
• French: moral
• Italian: morale
• Portuguese: moral
• Romanian: moral
• Sicilian: murali
• Spanish: moral
• → Albanian: moral
• → English: moral
• → Esperanto: moralo
• →⇒ Old Irish: mórálus

Further reading

• “moralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "moralis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “moralis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.