morum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.rum/, [ˈmoːrʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.rum/, [ˈmɔːrum]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

Noun

mōrum n (genitive mōrī); second declension

1. mulberry (fruit)
2. blackberry

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mōrum	mōra
Genitive	mōrī	mōrōrum
Dative	mōrō	mōrīs
Accusative	mōrum	mōra
Ablative	mōrō	mōrīs
Vocative	mōrum	mōra

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

• “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

Noun

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

Noun

mōrum

1. dative plural of mōr