# morse
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /mɔːs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːs

### Etymology 1

From Middle French mors, from Latin morsus (“bite; clasp”), from mordere (“to bite”).

#### Noun

morse (plural morses)
* A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative. [from 15th c.]
** 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work.

### Etymology 2

Uncertain, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Samic *moršë. Compare Russian морж (morž, “walrus”), Sami morša, Finnish mursu (all attested later), and possibly the second element of translingual Rosmarus.

#### Noun

morse (plural morses)
* (now rare) A walrus. [from 15th c.]
** 1829, [Robert Pearse Gillies], “The Voyage. (Continued.)”, in Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. […] (Second Series), volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 66:The morse is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, [...]
** 1880, Clements R Markham, editor, The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622, published 1881:Then we passed through a great deale of small ice, and sawe, upon some peices, two morses, and upon some, one; and also diuers seales, layeing upon peices of ice.

### Anagrams

* s'more, moser, meros, somer, smore, Somer, moers, Moser, omers, mores, mesor, Romes, Mores

## Breton
### Adverb

morse
* never

#### Synonyms

* nepred

#### Related terms

* biken

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

morse
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of morsen

### Anagrams

* smore

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔʁs/
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Russian морж (morž), from Northern Sami.

#### Noun

morse m (plural morses)
* walrus

##### See also

* otarie f
* phoque m

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

morse m (uncountable)
* Morse code

### Further reading

* “morse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* mores

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

morse f
* plural of morsa

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

morse
* third-person singular past historic of mordere

### Etymology 3
#### Participle

morse f pl
* feminine plural of morso

### Anagrams

* merso, sermo

## Latin
### Participle

morse
* vocative masculine singular of morsus

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From English Morse, after the American inventor Samuel Morse.

#### Noun

morse m (definite singular morsen) (uncountable)
* Morse or Morse code

##### Synonyms

* morsealfabet

##### Derived terms

* morsenøkkel

#### Verb

morse (imperative mors, present tense morser, simple past and past participle morsa or morset)
* (sende morse) to transmit Morse code

### Etymology 2

From mors (“corpse”).

#### Verb

morse (imperative mors, present tense morser, simple past and past participle morsa or morset)
* to die

##### Usage notes

Using morse to signify die instead of the more common dø is a special usage found among health workers. The use of the term in this way is unknown in the general population.

### References

* “morse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* morsa (a infinitive)

### Etymology

From English Morse, named after Samuel Morse (1791–1872).

### Noun

morse m (definite singular morsen, uncountable)
* Morse code

#### Derived terms

* morsealfabet
* morsekode

### Verb

morse (present tense morsar, past tense morsa, past participle morsa, passive infinitive morsast, present participle morsande, imperative morse/mors)
* to transmit Morse code

### References

* “morse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French morse.

### Noun

morse n (uncountable)
* Morse code

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish morghons. From morgon + -s (“adverbial suffix”). Compare the development of afse (from afton).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²mɔrse/

### Adverb

morse
* adverbial genitive form of morgon; a past morning

#### Usage notes

* Only found in the expression i morse (“the morning of today”), and related expressions, e.g. i går morse (”yesterday morning”), i måndags morse (”last Monday morning”).

#### See also

* afse