μόρος

See also: μωρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From o-grade of the root of μείρομαι (meíromai, “to receive as one's portion”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mó.ros/ → /ˈmo.ros/ → /ˈmo.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mó.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ros/

Noun

μόρος • (móros) m (genitive μόρου); second declension

1. fate, destiny
2. doom, death
3. corpse
4. a measure of land in Locris

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μόρος; τοῦ μόρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μόρος ho móros	τὼ μόρω tṑ mórō	οἱ μόροι hoi móroi
Genitive	τοῦ μόρου toû mórou	τοῖν μόροιν toîn móroin	τῶν μόρων tôn mórōn
Dative	τῷ μόρῳ tôi mórōi	τοῖν μόροιν toîn móroin	τοῖς μόροις toîs mórois
Accusative	τὸν μόρον tòn móron	τὼ μόρω tṑ mórō	τοὺς μόρους toùs mórous
Vocative	μόρε móre	μόρω mórō	μόροι móroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κάμμορος (kámmoros)

Further reading

• “μόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μόρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μόρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μόρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μόρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μόρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • death idem, page 198.
  • destiny idem, page 217.
  • fate idem, page 309.
  • lot idem, page 501.