# μωρός
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* μῶρος (môros) — Attic

### Etymology

Of unclear origin. Traditionally compared with Sanskrit मूर (mūrá, “dull, stupid, foolish”), from Proto-Indo-European *mowHrós, *muHrós (“dull, stupid”), with ablaut ō(u) : ū. However, this ablaut is now considered unacceptable. Words in the semantic category that the Greek belongs to ("slow, foolish") often involve irregular changes and lexical crosses, which makes analysis difficult.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔː.rós/ → /moˈros/ → /moˈros/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /mɔː.rós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /moˈros/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /moˈros/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /moˈros/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /moˈros/

### Adjective

μωρός • (mōrós) m (feminine μωρᾱ́, neuter μωρόν); first/second declension
* slow, sluggish
* slow, dull, foolish, stupid
* insipid, flavorless, flat

#### Descendants

* Greek: μωρός (morós)
* → Old Armenian: մորոս (moros)
From the neuter singular:
* Greek: μωρό (moró, “baby”)
* → Mingrelian: ბორო (boro)
* → English: moron (learned) (see there for further descendants)
From the masculine vocative singular:
* Greek: μωρέ (moré)
* Byzantine Greek: βρέ (bré)
** Greek: βρε (vre), ρε (re)
** → Ottoman Turkish: بره (bre), به (be)
*** → Albanian: bre
*** → Bulgarian: бе (be), ве (ve), уе (ue)
*** → Macedonian: бе (be), бре (bre)
*** → Romanian: bre
*** → Serbo-Croatian: bre
*** Turkish: bre

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μωρός 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 992

### Further reading

* “μωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “μωρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* μωρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
* G3474 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moˈɾos/
* Hyphenation: μω‧ρός

### Adjective

μωρός • (morós) m (feminine μωρή, neuter μωρό)
* stupid, silly, daft, simple
    Δεν θέλω να κάθομαι να ακούω μωρές κουβέντες.Den thélo na káthomai na akoúo morés kouvéntes.I don't want to sit and listen to stupid conversations.

#### Declension

| number case \ gender | singular | singular | singular | plural | plural | plural |
| number case \ gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter |
| nominative | μωρός • | μωρή • | μωρό • | μωροί • | μωρές • | μωρά • |
| genitive | μωρού • | μωρής • | μωρού • | μωρών • | μωρών • | μωρών • |
| accusative | μωρό • | μωρή • | μωρό • | μωρούς • | μωρές • | μωρά • |
| vocative | μωρέ • | μωρή • | μωρό • | μωροί • | μωρές • | μωρά • |
| derivations | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μωρός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μωρός, etc.) | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μωρός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μωρός, etc.) | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μωρός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μωρός, etc.) | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μωρός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μωρός, etc.) | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μωρός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μωρός, etc.) | Comparative: πιο + positive forms (e.g. πιο μωρός, etc.) Relative superlative: definite article + πιο + positive forms (e.g. ο πιο μωρός, etc.) |

#### Synonyms

* ανόητος (anóitos, “stupid, dumb”)
* κουτός (koutós, “stupid, dumb”)
* άμυαλος (ámyalos, “brainless, stupid”)

#### Antonyms

* έξυπνος (éxypnos, “clever”)
* συνετός (synetós, “wise”)
* ανοιχτομάτης (anoichtomátis, “sharp-eyed”)
* ευφυής (effyís, “bright, witty”)