Frommōrum(“mulberry fruit”) orAncient Greekμορέᾱ(moréā,“mulberry tree”).[1]
mōrus f (genitivemōrī);second declension
- theblack mulberry tree
Second-declension noun.
FromAncient Greekμωρός(mōrós).[2]
mōrus (femininemōra,neutermōrum);first/second-declension adjective
- foolish,silly,pixilated
First/second-declension adjective.
- ^Ernout, Alfred,Meillet, Antoine (1985) “mōrus, -ūs”, inDictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections ofJacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published2001, page415: “mōrum”
- ^Ernout, Alfred,Meillet, Antoine (1985) “mōrus, -a, -um”, inDictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections ofJacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published2001, page415
- “morus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “morus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "morus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- morus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to die at a good old age:exacta aetate mori
- (ambiguous) to starve oneself to death:inediā mori orvitam finire
- (ambiguous) to die a natural death:necessaria (opp.voluntaria)morte mori
- (ambiguous) to die of wounds:ex vulnere mori (Fam. 10. 33)
- Rhymes:-ɔrus
- Syllabification:mo‧rus
Clipping ofmorowiec +-us.
morus m pers
- (colloquial)good egg,good sort,mensch(person of strength, integrity and compassion)
- Synonyms:równiacha,równiak,równy gość,swój chłop
- (colloquial, rare)brick,dodger,slyboots
- Synonyms:morowiec,spryciarz,zuch
FromGermanMohr +-us, fromLatinMaurus, fromAncient GreekΜαῦρος(Maûros).Doublet ofMaur,murzyn, andMurzyn.
morus m pers (diminutivemorusek)
- (colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian)slob,sloven
- Synonyms:brudas,smoluch
- morus inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- morus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “morus”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, inSprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page114
