mors

Verb

mors

1. second-person singular present indicative form of morir

Noun

mors c

1. genitive singular indefinite of mor

Pronunciation

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Verb

mors

1. first-person singular present indicative of morsen
2. imperative of morsen

Etymology

From Latin morsus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mors m (plural mors)

1. (equestrian) bit

Further reading

• “mors” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mér-tis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”). Cognate with English murder.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /mors/, [mɔrs]

Noun

mors f (genitive mortis); third declension

1. death
2. corpse
3. annihilation

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, 1883–1887)
• mors in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

Noun

mors f

1. plural of mort

Etymology

From Latin morsus.

Noun

mors m (plural mors)

1. (Jersey, equestrian) bit

Noun

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

1. corpse
2. indefinite singular genitive of mor

Verb

mors

1. imperative of morse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔrs/

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Noun

mors m anim

1. walrus (Arctic mammal)
2. winter swimmer

Interjection

mors!

1. (slang) Hi!

Noun

mors

1. indefinite genitive singular of mor

Etymology

Borrowed from French morse.

Noun

mors (definite accusative morsi, plural morsler)

1. walrus