morus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.rus/, [ˈmoːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.rus/, [ˈmɔːrus]

From mōrum (“mulberry fruit”) or Ancient Greek μορέᾱ (moréā, “mulberry tree”).

mōrus f (genitive mōrī); second declension

1. the black mulberry tree

Second-declension noun.

• mōrulus

• French: mûre
• Italian: moro
• North Italian:
  • Romagnol: mór
• Romanian: mur
• Spanish: moro
• → English: morula
• → Polish: morwa
  • → Ukrainian: мо́рва (mórva)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: му̑рва

  Latin script: mȗrva

• → Proto-West Germanic: *mōrubaʀi (see there for further descendants)

From Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós).

mōrus (feminine mōra, neuter mōrum); first/second-declension adjective

1. foolish, silly, pixilated

First/second-declension adjective.

• mōrē
• mōror
• mōrio
• mōrōsus

• “morus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “morus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• morus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• morus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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)
    

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• Rhymes: -ɔrus
• Syllabification: mo‧rus

Clipping of morowiec + -us.

morus m pers

1. (colloquial) good egg, good sort, mensch (person of strength, integrity and compassion)

   Synonyms: równiacha, równiak, równy gość, swój chłop

2. (colloquial, rare) brick, dodger, slyboots

   Synonyms: morowiec, spryciarz, zuch

From German Mohr +‎ -us, from Latin Maurus, from Ancient Greek Μαῦρος (Maûros). Doublet of Maur, murzyn, and Murzyn.

morus m pers (diminutive morusek)

1. (colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian) slob, sloven

   Synonyms: brudas, smoluch

• morus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• morus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “morus”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 114