mores

See also: Mores, móres, morés, and mòrës

English

Alternative forms

• moeurs

Etymology 1

From Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔː.ɹeɪz/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹeɪz

Noun

mores pl (plural only)

1. A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 99:

     All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past — a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores, political and religious restrictions.

   • 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 165:

     It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos with its plural mores, and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the mores — the rules of behaviour — of a society.

Translations

a set of accepted moral norms or customs

• Afrikaans: norme pl
• Bulgarian: нрави (bg) m pl (nravi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 習俗／习俗 (zh) (xísú), 風俗／风俗 (zh) (fēngsú)

• Czech: mravy m pl, mrav (cs) m
• Finnish: normit pl
• French: mœurs (fr) f pl, coutumes (fr) f pl
• German: Sitten (de) f pl, Sittenkodex m, Bräuche (de) pl, Sitte (de) f, Gepflogenheiten (de) pl, Konventionen (de) pl, Lebensweise (de) f, Gebräuche (de) pl, Normen (de) pl or f
• Japanese: 道徳観 (どうとくかん, dōtokukan), モーレス (mōresu), 慣習 (ja) (かんしゅう, kanshū)
• Portuguese: moras (pt) f pl, costumes (pt) m pl
• Romanian: moravuri (ro) n pl
• Russian: нра́вы (ru) m pl (nrávy), обы́чаи (ru) m pl (obýčai), мора́льный ко́декс m (morálʹnyj kódɛks)
• Swedish: seder (sv) c pl, sedvänjor (sv) c pl
• Tagalog: malig

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔː.ɹz/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹz

Noun

mores

1. plural of more

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mores

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of more

Anagrams

• Morse, Moser, Romes, meros, mesor, moers, morse, omers, s'more, smore, somer

Catalan

Noun

mores

1. plural of mora

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mōrēs (“customs, rules”).

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: mo‧res

Noun

mores pl (plural only)

1. (college) customs, rules

Derived terms

• iemand mores leren (“to teach someone a lesson”)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ/
• Homophones: maure, maures, more

Adjective

mores

1. plural of more

Anagrams

• morse

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.reːs/, [ˈmoːreːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.res/, [ˈmɔːres]

Noun

mōrēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mōs

References

• “mores”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mores in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Anagrams

• sermō

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.rɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɛs
• Syllabification: mo‧res

Noun

mores m inan

1. law obedience

   Synonyms: karność, subordynacja

Declension

Declension of mores

	singular
nominative	mores
genitive	moresu
dative	moresowi
accusative	mores
instrumental	moresem
locative	moresie
vocative	moresie

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Verb

mores

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of morar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾes/ [ˈmo.ɾes]
• Rhymes: -oɾes
• Syllabification: mo‧res

Verb

mores

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of morar