mors

See also: Mors and MORs

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Verb

mors

1. second-person singular present indicative form of morir

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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. first-person singular present indicative of morsen
2. 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. (equestrian) bit

Further reading

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

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

Noun

mors f (genitive mortis); third declension

1. death
2. corpse
3. annihilation

Declension

Third declension i-stem.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mors	mortēs
Genitive	mortis	mortium
Dative	mortī	mortibus
Accusative	mortem	mortēs
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, 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 Latin morsus.

Noun

mors m (plural mors)

1. (Jersey, equestrian) 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

mors m anim

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

Interjection

mors!

1. (slang) Hi!

See also

• morsning

Noun

mors

1. indefinite genitive singular of mor

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French morse.

Noun

mors (definite accusative morsi, plural morsler)

1. walrus