Definitions and meaning of mors
mors
Catalan
Verb
mors
- second-person singular present indicative of morir
Danish
Noun
mors c
- indefinite genitive singular of mor
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
mors
- inflection of morsen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative
French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin morsus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔʁ/
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- Homophones: mord, mords, more, mores, mort, morts (general), maure, maures (one pronunciation)
Noun
mors m (plural mors)
- (equestrianism) bit
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mors”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *mortis, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”). Related to morior (“I die”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmɔrs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɔrs]
Noun
mors f (genitive mortis); third declension
- death
- Synonyms: fūnus, exitus, perniciēs, interitus, fātum, somnus, fīnis, sopor
- corpse, dead body
- Synonyms: cadāver, corpus, fūnus, caedēs
- annihilation
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Hyponyms
Related terms
Descendants
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 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.
- “mors”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle French
Noun
mors f
- plural of mort
Norman
Etymology
From Latin morsus.
Noun
mors m (plural mors)
- (Jersey, equestrianism) bit
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Possibly a borrowing from Latin mors (“death”).
Noun
mors n (definite singular morset, indefinite plural mors, definite plural morsa or morsene)
- corpse
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.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
mors
- imperative of morse
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from French morse, from Russian мо́рж (mórž), from a Uralic language. Compare Finnish mursu, Skolt Sami moršša.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔrs/
-
- Rhymes: -ɔrs
- Syllabification: mors
Noun
mors m animal
- walrus (Arctic mammal)
Declension
Derived terms
Noun
mors m pers
- winter swimmer
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- mors in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mors in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology 1
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 forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔrs/
- Rhymes: -ɔrs
Interjection
mors!
- (colloquial) g'day (hi, hello)
- (colloquial) cheers, ciao (bye)
Derived terms
- morsa
- morsning
- morsning korsning
- tjenamors
See also
- hej (has a list of greetings and farewells)
References
- mors in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- Gerd Carling (2005) “musch”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 93
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muːrs/, [muːʂ]
Noun
mors
- indefinite genitive singular of mor
References
- mors in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- mors in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- mors in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French morse.
Noun
mors (definite accusative morsu, plural morslar)
- walrus
Source: wiktionary.org