moriens

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of morior.

Participle

moriēns (genitive morientis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. dying, perishing
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.674:

     per mediōs ruit ac morientem nōmine clāmat

     [Anna] rushes through their midst and cries out to her dying [sister] by name.

2. decaying, withering

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	moriēns			morientēs	morientia
genitive	morientis			morientium
dative	morientī			morientibus
accusative	morientem	moriēns		morientēs morientīs	morientia
ablative	moriente morientī1			morientibus
vocative	moriēns			morientēs	morientia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “moriens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moriens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to close the eyes of a dying person: oculos operire (morienti)