mors

See also: Mors and MORs

Catalan

Verb

mors

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Danish

Noun

mors c

1. indefinite genitive singular of mor

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Verb

mors

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of morsen
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of morsen

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French

Etymology

From Latin morsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ/
• Homophones: mord, mords, more, mort

Noun

mors m (plural mors)

1. (equestrianism) bit

Further reading

• “mors”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mortis, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mors/, [mɔrs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mors/, [mɔrs]

Noun

mors f (genitive mortis); third declension

1. death
2. corpse
3. annihilation

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mors	mortēs
Genitive	mortis	mortium
Dative	mortī	mortibus
Accusative	mortem	mortēs mortīs
Ablative	morte	mortibus
Vocative	mors	mortēs

Related terms

• morior
• mortuus

Descendants

• Albanian: mort (borrowed)
• Aromanian: moarti
• Asturian: muerte
• Catalan: mort
• Dalmatian: muart
• English: amortize postmortem antemortem perimortem
• French: mort
• Friulian: muart
• Galician: morte
• Istriot: muorto
• Italian: morte
• Ladin: mort
• Mirandese: muorte
• Norman: mort (Jersey)
• Occitan: mort
• Portuguese: morte
• Romanian: moarte
• Sardinian: molte, morte, morti
• Sicilian: morti, muorti
• Spanish: muerte
• Venetian: mòrt, mòrte
• Walloon: moirt

References

• “mors”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mors”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mors in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mors in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to depart this life: mortem (diem supremum) obire
    
  • an untimely death: mors immatura or praematura
    
  • to commit suicide: mortem sibi consciscere
    
  • to meet death (by violence): mortem oppetere
    
  • to die for one's country: mortem occumbere pro patria
    
  • to poison oneself: veneno sibi mortem consciscere
    
  • to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
    
  • some one's death has plunged me in grief: mors alicuius luctum mihi attulit
    
  • to threaten some one with death, crucifixion, torture, war: minitari (minari) alicui mortem, crucem et tormenta, bellum
    
  • to beg for life: mortem deprecari (B. G. 7. 40. 6)
    
• “mors”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Middle French

Noun

mors f

1. plural of mort

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin morsus.

Noun

mors m (plural mors)

1. (Jersey, equestrianism) bit

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

mors n (definite singular morset, indefinite plural mors, definite plural morsa or morsene)

1. corpse
2. indefinite singular genitive of mor

Usage notes

Using mors instead of the more common lik is a special usage found among health workers. The use of the term in this way is unknown in the general population.

Verb

mors

1. imperative of morse

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Polish

morsy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔrs/

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Noun

1. walrus (Arctic mammal)
2. winter swimmer

Declension

Declension of mors

	singular	plural
nominative	mors	morsy
genitive	morsa	morsów
dative	morsowi	morsom
accusative	morsa	morsy
instrumental	morsem	morsami
locative	morsie	morsach
vocative	morsie	morsy

Derived terms

• morsowy

See also

• morski

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• moss

Etymology

Possibly an alteration of morgon (“morning”), or from Tavringer Romani mus, muss, musij, mossj, måssj (“man, person”), from Romani murś (“man”). Related to Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “man”). Compare English mush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔrs/
• Rhymes: -ɔrs

Interjection

mors!

1. (colloquial) hi, hello

Derived terms

• morsa
• morsning
• morsning korsning
• tjena mors

Noun

mors

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite genitive singular of mor

References

• mors in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• Gerd Carling (2005) “musch”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 93

Anagrams

• Roms, orms, roms

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French morse.

Noun

mors (definite accusative morsi, plural morsler)

1. walrus