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mores

See also: Mores, móres, morés, and mòrës

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Etymology 1

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From Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs. Doublet of moeurs.

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mores pl (plural only)

  1. A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
    • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 99:
      All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past — a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores, political and religious restrictions.
    • 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 165:
      It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos with its plural mores, and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the mores — the rules of behaviour — of a society.
    • 1984, Steven Levy, chapter 2, in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution‎[1]:
      Even as the elements of a culture were forming, as legends began to accrue, as their mastery of programming started to surpass any previous recorded levels of skill, the dozen or so hackers were reluctant to acknowledge that their tiny society, on intimate terms with the TX-0, had been slowly and implicitly piecing together a body of concepts, beliefs, and mores.
    • 2013 May 3, Dean Van Nguyen, “Why Ireland Has Lagged Behind the Rest of Europe on Reproductive Rights”, in The Atlantic‎[2]:
      The country's traditional mores have sparked recent ideological battles, as well as a few national embarrassments.
    • 2014 June 9, Emma Green, “Americans: Still Pretty Judge-y”, in The Atlantic‎[3]:
      The one area where sexual mores seem to have changed is gay relationships. At the beginning of 2004, only 46 percent of respondents thought gay sex should be legal; in another poll that year, only 42 percent of people said they saw it as morally acceptable or believed that same-sex marriage should be legal.
Derived terms
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  • more (nonstandard back-formation)
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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mores

  1. plural of more

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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mores

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of more

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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mores

  1. plural of mora (“delay; mora”)

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mores

  1. plural of mora (“mulberry; blackberry”)

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mores

  1. plural of mora (“female Moor”)

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin mōrēs (“customs, rules”).

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: mo‧res

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mores pl (plural only)

  1. (college) customs, rules

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French

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mores

  1. plural of more

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Galician

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mores

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of morar

Latin

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mōrēs

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mōs

References

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  • “mores”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mores in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Old English

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mōres

  1. genitive singular of mōr

Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Mores.

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mores m inan

  1. law obedience
    Synonyms: karność, subordynacja

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Declension of mores
singular
nominative mores
genitive moresu
dative moresowi
accusative mores
instrumental moresem
locative moresie
vocative moresie

Further reading

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  • mores in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mores in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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mores

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of morar

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmoɾes/ [ˈmo.ɾes]
  • Rhymes: -oɾes
  • Syllabification: mo‧res

Verb

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mores

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of morar
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