morum

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Probably from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron), though the long vowel is somewhat unexpected.

Noun

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mōrum n (genitive mōrī); second declension

  1. mulberry (fruit)
  2. blackberry
Declension
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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Synonyms
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Descendants
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  • 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

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  • 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[1], 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

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Noun

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mōrum

  1. 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

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Noun

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mōrum

  1. dative plural of mōr