# morum
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmoː.rum/, [ˈmoːrʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmo.rum/, [ˈmɔːrum]

### Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron, “black mulberry, blackberry”), though the long vowel is somewhat unexpected.

#### Noun

mōrum n (genitive mōrī); second declension
* mulberry (fruit)
* blackberry

##### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

##### Synonyms

* mōrus

##### Descendants

* Catalan: móra
* English: morula
* French: mûre
* Galician: amora, mora
* Italian: mora
* Occitan: amora
* Old Polish: mora
* Portuguese: amora, morango (from Vulgar *mōrānicus)
* Romanian: mură
* Sicilian: mura (mainly plural only, with collective article "a": "a muri")
* Spanish: mora

#### References

* ↑ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “mōrus, -ūs”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 415: “mōrum”

#### Further reading

* “morum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “morum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* morum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges (ambiguous) Vesuvius is discharging flame: Vesuvius evomit (more strongly eructat) ignes (ambiguous) to make an impression on the senses: sensus movere (more strongly pellere) (ambiguous) to die at a good old age: exacta aetate mori (ambiguous) to starve oneself to death: inediā mori or vitam finire (ambiguous) to make a person laugh: risum elicere (more strongly excutere) alicui (ambiguous) to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori (ambiguous) to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..: gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more strongly aucupari (ambiguous) to refuse, reject a request: negare, more strongly denegare alicui aliquid (ambiguous) to form a plan, make a resolution: consilium capere, inire (de aliqua re, with Gen. gerund., with Inf., more rarely ut) (ambiguous) to detain a person: in mora alicui esse (ambiguous) without delay: sine mora or nulla mora interposita (ambiguous) a lifelike picture of everyday life: morum ac vitae imitatio (ambiguous) to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere (ambiguous) to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2) (ambiguous) to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare) (ambiguous) to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse) (ambiguous) to make sport of, rally a person: illudere alicui or in aliquem (more rarely aliquem) (ambiguous) to give moral advice, rules of conduct: morum praecepta tradere alicui (ambiguous) a stern critic of morals: severus morum castigator (ambiguous) it is customary to..: mos (moris) est, ut (Brut. 21. 84) (ambiguous) it is traditional usage: more, usu receptum est (ambiguous) according to the custom and tradition of my fathers: more institutoque maiorum (Mur. 1. 1) (ambiguous) to pass the whole day in discussion: dicendi mora diem extrahere, eximere, tollere (ambiguous) to die of wounds: ex vulnere mori (Fam. 10. 33)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

mōrum
* genitive plural of mōs
    ... me civitatis morum piget taedetque.... the customs of our city give me sorrow and disgust. (Sallust, Jugurthine War 4,9)

## Old English
### Noun

mōrum
* dative plural of mōr