Alternative forms

• moriō (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#MORIORCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#MORIOR *morjōr, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#MORIORCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MORIOR *mr̥yétor, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MORIOR *mer- (“to die”).^[1]

Cognate with Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós, “mortal”), Proto-Germanic *murþaz, Proto-Celtic *marwos, Lithuanian mirti (“death”), Sanskrit मृत्यु (mṛtyú, “death”)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#MORIOR, Proto-Slavic *merti. Related to mors (“death”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔ.ri.ɔr]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#MORIORCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#MORIOR
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.ri.or]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#MORIORCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#MORIOR

Verb

morior (present infinitive morī or morīrī, perfect active mortuus sum)Category:Latin lemmas#MORIORCategory:Latin verbs#MORIORCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#MORIORCategory:Pages with entries#MORIORCategory:Pages with 1 entry#MORIOR; third (-iō variant) / fourth conjugation, deponent, no passive

1. to die, be slain, fall (in battle), perish

   Synonyms: pereō, occumbō, dēfungor, exspīrō, intereō, dēcēdō, cadō, occidō, excēdō, discēdō, dēficiō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.659–660:

     “Moriēmur inultae / sed moriāmur”

     “We will die unavenged, but let us die.”
     (Dido here speaks of herself using the royal we or majestic we, which some translations honor, and others alter to first-person singular: “I shall die…”.)

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#MORIOR
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horatius, Carmina 3.2.13:

     Dulce et decōrum est prō patriā morī.

     Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's fatherland.

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#MORIOR
2. to decay, wither

References

• “morior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “morior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “morior”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to die at a good old age: exacta aetate mori
    
  • (ambiguous) to starve oneself to death: inediā mori or vitam finire
    
  • (ambiguous) to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori
    
  • (ambiguous) to die of wounds: ex vulnere mori (Fam. 10. 33)
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mŏri”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 137