mors
CatalanEdit
VerbEdit
mors
- second-person singular present indicative form of morir
DanishEdit
NounEdit
mors c
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
VerbEdit
mors
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /mɔʁ/
Audio (file) - Homophones: mord, mords, more, mores, mort, morts (general), maure, maures (one pronunciation)
NounEdit
mors m (plural mors)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “mors”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *mortis, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”). Related to morior (“I die”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mors f (genitive mortis); third declension
DeclensionEdit
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 |
HyponymsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Albanian: mort
- Aromanian: moarti
- Asturian: muerte
- Catalan: mort
- Dalmatian: muart
- Friulian: muart
- Galician: morte
- Istriot: muorto
- Italian: morte
- Ladin: mort
- Mirandese: muorte
- → Norwegian Bokmål: mors
- Old French: mort
- Occitan: mort
- Picard: mort
- Piedmontese: mòrt
- Portuguese: morte
- Romanian: moarte
- Sardinian: molte, morte, morti
- Sicilian: morti, muorti
- Spanish: muerte
- Venetian: mòrt, mòrte
- Walloon: moirt
ReferencesEdit
- “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)
- to depart this life: mortem (diem supremum) obire
- “mors”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle FrenchEdit
NounEdit
mors f
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
mors m (plural mors)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Possibly a borrowing from Latin mors (“death”).
NounEdit
mors n (definite singular morset, indefinite plural mors, definite plural morsa or morsene)
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.
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
mors
- imperative of morse
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French morse, from Russian мо́рж (mórž), from a Uralic language. Compare Finnish mursu, Skolt Sami moršša.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mors m anim
- walrus (Arctic mammal)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
mors m pers
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- morsować impf
Further readingEdit
- mors in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mors in Polish dictionaries at PWN
SwedishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
mors!
- (colloquial) hi, hello
- (colloquial) bye
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- mors in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- Gerd Carling (2005), “musch”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 93
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
mors