mors

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^[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

Middle FrenchEdit

NounEdit

mors f

plural of mort

NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin morsus.

NounEdit

mors m (plural mors)

(Jersey, equestrian) bit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

NounEdit

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

corpse
indefinite singular genitive of mor

Usage notesEdit

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.