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/

Noun

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 Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: 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

• Chinese:

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

• Czech: mravy m pl, mrav 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
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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
• 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.

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

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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”)

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French

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

mores

1. plural of more

Anagrams

• morse

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) mōrēs

1. nominative plural of mōs
2. accusative plural of mōs
3. 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.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.rɛs/

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
• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Verb

mores

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾes/ [ˈmo.ɾes]

Verb

mores

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of morar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of morar.