μόρος

See also: μωρός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
 

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.

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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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