mos

mos (plural mores)

1. (rare) singular of mores (“moral norms or customs”)

• OMS, SMO, Som., oms, osm, som, som'

From Proto-Albanian *mē tše, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁.

mos

1. don't

mos

1. Alternative form of nos

From Latin morsus (“little bits”).

mos m (plural mossos)

1. bite, mouthful

   Synonyms: mossegada, mossada

2. bit (metal placed in a horse's mouth)

   Synonym: fre

mos (enclitic, contracted 'ns, proclitic ens)

1. us (Dialectal, plural, direct or indirect object). Standard Catalan ens/'ns/-nos.

mos

1. masculine plural of mon

• “mos” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from Middle Low German mos.

• IPA^(key): /moːs/, [moːˀs]

mos c (singular definite mosen, not used in plural form)

1. mash, puree

From Old Norse mosi, mose.

• IPA^(key): /mɔs/, [mɔs]

mos n (singular definite mosset, plural indefinite mosser)

1. moss

See mose (“to mash, to slog”).

• IPA^(key): /moːs/, [moːˀs]

mos

1. imperative of mose

From Old Dutch *mos, from Proto-Germanic *musą.

• IPA^(key): /mɔs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔs

mos n (plural mossen, diminutive mosje n)

1. moss

• rendiermos

• som

From Proto-Uralic *muśke- or *mośke- (“to wash”).[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoʃ]

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mos

1. (transitive) to wash something
2. (transitive) to brush (teeth)

   fogat mos ― to brush one's teeth

From Proto-Dardic [Term?], from Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *māmsás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *māmsás, from Proto-Indo-European *mēmso-.

mos

1. meat

Root noun interpreted as s-stem noun of uncertain origin. May be from Proto-Indo-European *mō-, *mē- (“endeavour, will, temper”), whence Ancient Greek μαίομαι (maíomai, “to strive”), English mood, or from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”). See also modus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /moːs/

mōs m (genitive mōris); third declension

1. manner, custom, way, usage, practice, habit
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)

     O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?

     Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!

2. humor, self-will, caprice
3. conduct, behavior
4. (transf.) quality, nature mode, fashion
5. (transf.) precept, law, rule
6. (plural only) character, morals
   • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.17.3:

     Spondebo enim tibi, vel potius spondeo in meque recipio, eos esse M'. Curii mores eamque quum probitatem, tum etiam humanitatem, ut eum et amicitia tua et tam accurata commendatione, si tibi sit cognitus, dignum sis existimaturus.

     I shall pledge my word to you, or rather give you my promise and solemn undertaking, that such is M'. Curius's character, such his integrity and his kindliness combined, that if you make his acquaintance, you will assuredly deem him worthy of both your friendship and of so elaborate a recommendation.

Third declension.

• Dutch: mores
• English: meo more, mores
• French: mœurs
• Romanian: moare

• mos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • according to the present custom, fashion: his moribus
    
  • to comply with a person's wishes; to humour: alicui morem gerere, obsequi
    
  • to accomodate oneself to another's wishes: alicuius voluntati morem gerere
    
  • to improve a person: mores alicuius corrigere
    
  • moral science; ethics: philosophia, quae est de vita et moribus (Acad. 1. 5. 19)
    
  • moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur
    
  • moral precepts: praecepta de moribus or de virtute
    
  • moral corruption (not corruptela morum): mores corrupti or perditi
    
  • amongst such moral depravity: tam perditis or corruptis moribus
    
  • immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)
    
  • something is contrary to my moral sense, goes against my principles: aliquid abhorret a meis moribus (opp. insitum [atque innatum] est animo or in animo alicuius)
    
  • character: natura et mores; vita moresque; indoles animi ingeniique; or simply ingenium, indoles, natura, mores
    
  • a sociable, affable disposition: facilitas, faciles mores (De Am. 3. 11)
    
  • to become customary, the fashion: in consuetudinem or morem venire
    
  • to introduce a thing into our customs; to familiarise us with a thing: in nostros mores inducere aliquid (De Or. 2. 28)
    
  • it is customary to..: mos (moris) est, ut (Brut. 21. 84)
    
  • (ambiguous) the earth brings forth fruit, crops: terra effert (more rarely fert, but not profert) fruges
    
  • (ambiguous) Vesuvius is discharging flame: Vesuvius evomit (more strongly eructat) ignes
    
  • (ambiguous) to make an impression on the senses: sensus movere (more strongly pellere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to die at a good old age: exacta aetate mori
    
  • (ambiguous) to starve oneself to death: inediā mori or vitam finire
    
  • (ambiguous) to make a person laugh: risum elicere (more strongly excutere) alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori
    
  • (ambiguous) to court a person's favour; to ingratiate oneself with..: gratiam alicuius sibi quaerere, sequi, more strongly aucupari
    
  • (ambiguous) to refuse, reject a request: negare, more strongly denegare alicui aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to form a plan, make a resolution: consilium capere, inire (de aliqua re, with Gen. gerund., with Inf., more rarely ut)
    
  • (ambiguous) a lifelike picture of everyday life: morum ac vitae imitatio
    
  • (ambiguous) to inspire fear, terror: timorem, terrorem alicui inicere, more strongly incutere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare)
    
  • (ambiguous) to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse)
    
  • (ambiguous) to make sport of, rally a person: illudere alicui or in aliquem (more rarely aliquem)
    
  • (ambiguous) to give moral advice, rules of conduct: morum praecepta tradere alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) a stern critic of morals: severus morum castigator
    
  • (ambiguous) it is traditional usage: more, usu receptum est
    
  • (ambiguous) according to the custom and tradition of my fathers: more institutoque maiorum (Mur. 1. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to die of wounds: ex vulnere mori (Fam. 10. 33)
    
• mos in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mos in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

From Proto-Germanic *musą, whence also Old High German mos.

mos n

1. moss

• Middle English: mos, mosse
  • Scots: mos
  • English: moss

From Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“food”). Akin to Old Saxon mōs (“food”), Old High German muos (German Mus, Gemüse (“food, vegetables”), Old English mete (“food”). More at meat.

mōs n

1. food, nourishment, victuals

• mēsan

• Middle English: mos, mose
  • (perhaps) English: mush
  • (perhaps) Scots: moosh

From Proto-Germanic *musą, whence also Old English mos.

mos n

1. moss

• German: Moos

• IPA^(key): /mos/

mos

1. my
   • c. 1160, Bernart de Ventadorn, canso:

     Que mos chantars no·m val gaire / Ni mas voutas ni mei so [...].

     For my song little avails me, nor my verses, nor my airs.

From Proto-Algonquian *mo·swa (“it strips”), referring to how a moose strips tree bark when feeding: compare Massachusett moos-u (“he strips, cuts smooth”).[1][2]

mos

1. moose

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

mos n

1. mash, sauce, jam, something mashed

   en grillad med mos

   a grilled hot dog with mashed potatoes

2. indefinite genitive singular of mo