• moriō(Late Latin)

FromProto-Italic*morjōr, fromProto-Indo-European*mer-(“to die”).

Cognate withAncient Greekβροτός(brotós,“mortal”),Proto-Germanic*murþaz,Proto-Celtic*marwos,Lithuanianmirti(“death”),Sanskritमृत्यु(mṛtyú,“death”),Proto-Slavic*merti. Related tomors(“death”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ri.or/,[ˈmɔriɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ri.or/,[ˈmɔːrior]

morior (present infinitivemorī,perfect activemortuussum);third conjugationiō-variant,deponent

1. todie, beslain,fall (in battle),perish

   Synonyms:pereō,occumbō,dēfungor,exspīrō,intereō,dēcēdō,cadō,occidō,excēdō,discēdō,dēficiō

   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid4.659–660:

     “Moriēmur inultae / sedmoriāmur”

     “We will die unavenged, butlet us die.”
     (Dido here speaks of herself using the royal we or majestic we, which some translations honor, and others alter to first-person singular: “I shall die…”.)

   • 23BCE – 13BCE,Horace,Odes3.2.13:

     Dulce et decōrum est prō patriāmorī.

     Sweet and fitting it isto die for one's fatherland.

2. todecay,wither

• vīvō

(Several descendants reflect a fourth-conjugation variant(morior, morīrī) attested in Plautus, Ennius, and Ovid.)^[1]

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mŏri”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa,page137

• “morior”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “morior”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• morior 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)
    

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