mos

Noun

mos (plural mores)

1. (rare) singular of mores (“moral norms or customs”)

Anagrams

• OMS, SMO, Som., oms, osm, som, som'

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *meh₁ kʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁.

Adverb

mos

1. don't

Pronoun

mos

1. Alternative form of nos

Etymology 1

From Latin morsus (“little bits”).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German mos.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mosi, mose.

Etymology 3

See mose (“to mash, to slog”).

Etymology

From Old Dutch *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔs

Noun

mos n (plural mossen, diminutive mosje n)

1. moss

Anagrams

• som

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *muśke- or *mośke- (“to wash”).^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoʃ]

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Verb

mos

1. (transitive) to wash something
2. (transitive) to brush (teeth)

   fogat mos ― to brush one's teeth

References

Etymology

From Proto-Dardic [Term?], from Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *māmsás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *māmsás, from Proto-Indo-European *mēmso-.

Noun

mos

1. meat

Etymology

Root noun interpreted as s-stem noun of uncertain origin. May be from Proto-Indo-European *mō-, *mē- (“endeavour, will, temper”), whence Ancient Greek μαίομαι (maíomai, “to strive”), English mood, or from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). See also modus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /moːs/

Noun

mōs m (genitive mōris); third declension

1. manner, custom, way, usage, practice, habit
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)

     O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?

     Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!

2. humor, self-will, caprice
3. conduct, behavior, character
4. (transf.) quality, nature mode, fashion
5. (transf.) precept, law, rule

References

• mos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • according to the present custom, fashion: his moribus
    
  • to comply with a person's wishes; to humour: alicui morem gerere, obsequi
    
  • to accomodate oneself to another's wishes: alicuius voluntati morem gerere
    
  • to improve a person: mores alicuius corrigere
    
  • moral science; ethics: philosophia, quae est de vita et moribus (Acad. 1. 5. 19)
    
  • moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • moral precepts: praecepta de moribus or de virtute
    
  • moral corruption (not corruptela morum): mores corrupti or perditi
    
  • amongst such moral depravity: tam perditis or corruptis moribus
    
  • immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)
    
  • something is contrary to my moral sense, goes against my principles: aliquid abhorret a meis moribus (opp. insitum [atque innatum] est animo or in animo alicuius)
    
  • character: natura et mores; vita moresque; indoles animi ingeniique; or simply ingenium, indoles, natura, mores
    
  • a sociable, affable disposition: facilitas, faciles mores (De Am. 3. 11)
    
  • to become customary, the fashion: in consuetudinem or morem venire
    
  • to introduce a thing into our customs; to familiarise us with a thing: in nostros mores inducere aliquid (De Or. 2. 28)
    
  • it is customary to..: mos (moris) est, ut (Brut. 21. 84)
    
  • (ambiguous) the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges
    
  • (ambiguous) Vesuvius is discharging flame: Vesuvius evomit (more strongly eructat) ignes
    
  • (ambiguous) to make an impression on the senses: sensus movere (more strongly pellere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to die at a good old age: exacta aetate mori
    
  • (ambiguous) to starve oneself to death: inediā mori or vitam finire
    
  • (ambiguous) to make a person laugh: risum elicere (more strongly excutere) alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori
    
  • (ambiguous) to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..: gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more strongly aucupari
    
  • (ambiguous) to refuse, reject a request: negare, more strongly denegare alicui aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to form a plan, make a resolution: consilium capere, inire (de aliqua re, with Gen. gerund., with Inf., more rarely ut)
    
  • (ambiguous) a lifelike picture of everyday life: morum ac vitae imitatio
    
  • (ambiguous) to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare)
    
  • (ambiguous) to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse)
    
  • (ambiguous) to make sport of, rally a person: illudere alicui or in aliquem (more rarely aliquem)
    
  • (ambiguous) to give moral advice, rules of conduct: morum praecepta tradere alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) a stern critic of morals: severus morum castigator
    
  • (ambiguous) it is traditional usage: more, usu receptum est
    
  • (ambiguous) according to the custom and tradition of my fathers: more institutoque maiorum (Mur. 1. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to die of wounds: ex vulnere mori (Fam. 10. 33)
    
• mos in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mos in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *musą, whence also Old High German mos.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“food”). Akin to Old Saxon mōs (“food”), Old High German muos (German Mus, Gemüse (“food, vegetables”), Old English mete (“food”). More at meat.

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *musą, whence also Old English mos.

Noun

mos n

1. moss

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mos/

Adjective

mos

1. my
   • c. 1160, Bernart de Ventadorn, canso:

     Que mos chantars no·m val gaire / Ni mas voutas ni mei so [...].

     For my song little avails me, nor my verses, nor my airs.

See also

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).^[1][2]

Noun

mos

1. moose

Noun

mos n

1. mash, sauce, jam, something mashed

   en grillad med mos

   a grilled hot dog with mashed potatoes

2. indefinite genitive singular of mo