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moror

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From mora (delay) +‎ -or (deponent verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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moror (present infinitive morārī or morārier, perfect active morātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

  1. (intransitive) to linger, loiter, spend time with
    Synonyms: habitō, cōnsistō
    • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.1:
      Prīmum argūmentum compositae mentis exīstimō posse cōnsistere et sēcum morārī.
      The first proof of a well-ordered mind, I believe, [is] the ability to remain in one place and to linger with itself.
  2. (transitive) to delay, hinder
    Synonyms: dētineō, cūnctor, retardō, prōtrahō, tardō, dubitō, trahō, differō
    Antonyms: ruō, currō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō
  3. to impede, detain, cause to wait, hinder, hold back, stay
    Synonyms: supprimō, arceō, refrēnō, obstō, cūnctor, contineō, retineō, cohibeō, intersaepiō, inclūdō, perimō, obstō, coerceō, officiō, reprimō, saepiō, comprimō
    Antonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.235–236:
      “Quid struit, aut quā spē inimīcā in gente morātur,
      nec prōlem Ausoniam et Lāvīnia respicit arva?”
      [Jupiter speaks:] “What does [Aeneas] intend, or what hope detains him among hostile people, [such that] he disregards his Ausonian children and the Lavinian fields?”
Conjugation
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1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Italian: morare, muorarsi (dialect of Lucca)
  • Old French: morer
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: morar
  • Old Spanish: morar

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Etymology 2

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From Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós, dull, slow). Coined by Nero most likely. A pun based on the resemblance to its homograph.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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mōror (present infinitive mōrārī); first conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stems

  1. (hapax legomenon) to be a fool
    • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum VI 33:
      Certē omnibus rērum verbōrumque contumēliīs mortuum īnsectātus est, modo stultitiae modo saevitiae arguēns; nam et mōrārī eum dēsīsse inter hominēs prōductā prīmā syllabā iocābātur multaque dēcrēta et cōnstitūta, ut īnsipientis atque dēlīrī, prō irritīs habuit.
      He certainly blamed the dead one [Claudius] with all insults, of deeds and of words, sometimes reproving his stupidity, other times his cruelty; for he jested about him having ceased to be a fool among people (with a lengthened first syllable) as well as having nullified many decrees and edicts of his, as those of an unwise and crazy one.
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References

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  • moror”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • moror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • moror in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • moror in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016