# mors
## Catalan
### Verb

mors
* second-person singular present indicative of morir

## Danish
### Noun

mors c
* indefinite genitive singular of mor

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### 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: /mɔʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: mord, mords, more, mores, mort, morts (general), maure, maures (one pronunciation)

### Noun

mors m (plural mors)
* (equestrianism) bit

#### Derived terms

* mors du diable

### 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: /mors/, [mɔrs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /mors/, [mɔrs]

### Noun

mors f (genitive mortis); third declension
* 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, [...].
** 1399, anonymous, Llibre Vermell de Montserrat :Ad mortem festinamus: / peccare desistamus.We hasten unto death: / let us refrain from sinning.
* corpse, dead body
    Synonyms: cadāver, corpus, fūnus, caedēs
* annihilation

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

#### Hyponyms

* mors voluntāria

#### Related terms

* morior
* mortuus

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: molte, morte, morti
* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: moarti
** Romanian: moarte
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: muart
** Istriot: muorto
** Italian: morte
** Neapolitan: morte
** Sicilian: morti, muorti
** Venetan: mòrt, mòrte
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: muart
** Ladin: mort
* Gallo-Italic:
** Piedmontese: mòrt
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: mort
** Occitan: mort
** Old French: mort
*** Middle French: mort
**** French: mort
***** → English: mort
*** Picard: mort
*** Norman: mort (Jersey)
*** Walloon: moirt
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: muerte
** Old Galician-Portuguese: morte
*** Galician: morte
*** Portuguese: morte
** Old Leonese: morte
*** Asturian: muerte, muörti (Cabrales), morte (obsolete)
*** Leonese: muerte
*** Mirandese: muorte
*** Extremaduran: muerti
** Spanish: muerte
* Borrowed:
** → Albanian: mort
** → Norwegian Bokmål: mors

### 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, 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

## 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

* morse

### 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: /ˈmɔrs/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrs
* Syllabification: mors

### Noun

mors m animal
* walrus (Arctic mammal)

#### Derived terms

* morsowaty
* morsowy

### Noun

mors m pers
* winter swimmer

#### Derived terms

* morsować impf

### 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

* moss

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔrs/
* Rhymes: -ɔrs

#### Interjection

mors!
* (colloquial) g'day (hi, hello)
* (colloquial) cheers, ciao (bye)

##### Derived terms

* morsa
* morsning
* morsning korsning
* tjena mors

##### 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: /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

* Roms, orms, roms

## Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French morse.

### Noun

mors (definite accusative morsu, plural morslar)
* walrus