morse

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɔːs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːs

From Middle French mors, from Latin morsus (“bite; clasp”), from mordere (“to bite”).

morse (plural morses)

1. A clasp or fastening used to fasten a cope in the front, usually decorative. [from 15th c.]
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:

     The morse bore a seraph's head in gold-thread raised work.

Uncertain. Compare Russian морж (morž, “walrus”), Sami morša, Finnish mursu (all attested later).

morse (plural morses)

1. (now rare) A walrus. [from 15th c.]
   • 1829, [Robert Pearse Gillies], “The Voyage. (Continued.)”, in Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. […] (Second Series), volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 66:

     The morse is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, [...]

   • 1880, Clements R Markham, editor, The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622, published 1881:

     Then we passed through a great deale of small ice, and sawe, upon some peices, two morses, and upon some, one; and also diuers seales, layeing upon peices of ice.

• s'more, moser, meros, somer, smore, Somer, moers, Moser, omers, mores, mesor, Romes, Mores

morse

1. never

• nepred

• biken

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morse

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of morsen

• smore

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁs/

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From Russian морж (morž), from Northern Sami.

morse m (plural morses)

1. walrus

• otarie f
• phoque m

morse m (uncountable)

1. Morse code

• “morse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mores

morse f

1. plural of morsa

morse

1. third-person singular past historic of mordere

morse f pl

1. feminine plural of morso

• merso, sermo

morse

1. vocative masculine singular of morsus

From English Morse, after the American inventor Samuel Morse.

morse m (definite singular morsen) (uncountable)

1. Morse or Morse code

• morsealfabet

• morsenøkkel

morse (imperative mors, present tense morser, simple past and past participle morsa or morset)

1. (sende morse) to transmit Morse code

From mors (“corpse”).

morse (imperative mors, present tense morser, simple past and past participle morsa or morset)

1. to die

Using morse to signify die instead of the more common dø is a special usage found among health workers. The use of the term in this way is unknown in the general population.

• “morse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• morsa (a infinitive)

From English Morse, named after Samuel Morse (1791–1872).

morse m (definite singular morsen, uncountable)

1. Morse code

• morsealfabet
• morsekode

morse (present tense morsar, past tense morsa, past participle morsa, passive infinitive morsast, present participle morsande, imperative morse/mors)

1. to transmit Morse code

• “morse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French morse.

morse n (uncountable)

1. Morse code

From Old Swedish morghons. From morgon + -s (“adverbial suffix”). Compare the development of afse (from afton).

• IPA^(key): /²mɔrse/

morse

1. adverbial genitive form of morgon; a past morning

• Only found in the expression i morse (“the morning of today”), and related expressions, e.g. i går morse (”yesterday morning”), i måndags morse (”last Monday morning”).

• afse