Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1135.mors on page 1135
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mors death
mors is a Latin Noun that primarily means death.
Definitions for mors
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
death
English derivatives:
mortal immortal mortify mortgage
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
The act or fact of dying or being killed, death. (b) (w. gen. of person or poss. adj.). (c) (w. adjs. expr. manner or form of death). (d) to the extent of causing, suffering, or incurring death. (e) to meet one's death, die; to send to one'd death, kill; to commit suicide.
- 2
Death as a personified agent or deity.
- 3
Death as a state (usu. in phr. when one is dead).
Sentences with mors
Latin to English
Eum ad mortem trāns terram eius trāxistis.Compare You (pl.) dragged him to death across his land.
Spēs vīvendī post mortem multōs hortātur.Compare The hope of living after death encourages many people.
Mors est similis somnō.Compare Death is similar to sleep
Tempora longa tibi noli promittere vitae: quocumque incedis, sequitur Mors corporis umbra.Compare Do not promise yourself a long life: wherever you go, Death goes too, like your body's shadow.
Ergo sollicitae tu causa, pecunia, vitae; per ter immaturum mortis adimus iter; tu vitiis hominum crudelis pabula praebes; semina curarum de capita orte tuo.Compare So it is you, money, the cause of a restless life. Because of you we embark toward early death; on you men's vices cruelly feed, you, the seed and fountainhead of all our cares.
Instrue praeceptis animum, ne discere cessa; nam sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago.Compare Furnish your mind with precepts, never stop learning; for life without learning is but an image of death.
Nullus interitus est rei publicae naturalis ut hominis, in quo mors non modo necessaria est, verum etiam optanda persaepe.Compare Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Claudo porta, multitudo, ut mors servitus praepono hortans.Compare They closed the gates, exhorting the multitude to prefer death to slavery.
Declension table for mors
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | mors | mortēs |
| Gen. | mortis | mortium / -um |
| Dat. | mortī | mortibus |
| Acc. | mortem | mortēs / -īs |
| Abl. | morte | mortibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 93.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1135.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 119.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "mors, mortis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/mors-mortis.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 93.mors, mortis on page 93
