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mors

  1. second-person singular present indicative of morir

mors c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of mor

mors

  1. inflection of morsen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Inherited from Latin morsus.

mors m (plural mors)

  1. (equestrianism) bit

From Proto-Italic *mortis, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”). Related to morior (“I die”).

mors f (genitive mortis); third declension

  1. death
    Synonyms: fūnus, exitus, perniciēs, interitus, fātum, somnus, fīnis, sopor

    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.696:

      Nam quia nec fātō, meritā nec morte perībat, [...].
      For since [Dido] was perishing neither by fate, nor by a death she deserved, [...].
  2. corpse, dead body
    Synonyms: cadāver, corpus, fūnus, caedēs
  3. annihilation

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
  • “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)
  • “mors”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

mors f

  1. plural of mort

From Latin morsus.

mors m (plural mors)

  1. (Jersey, equestrianism) bit

Possibly a borrowing from Latin mors (“death”).

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

  1. corpse

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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mors

  1. imperative of morse
 
morsy

Borrowed from French morse, from Russian мо́рж (mórž), from a Uralic language. Compare Finnish mursu, Skolt Sami moršša.

mors m animal

  1. walrus (Arctic mammal)

mors m pers

  1. winter swimmer
  • mors in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mors in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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.

mors!

  1. (colloquial) g'day (hi, hello)
  2. (colloquial) cheers, ciao (bye)
  • hej (has a list of greetings and farewells)
  • mors in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • Gerd Carling (2005) “musch”, in Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, →ISBN, page 93

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mors

  1. indefinite genitive singular of mor

Borrowed from French morse.

mors (definite accusative morsu, plural morslar)

  1. walrus