mos

Etymology

Union of particles mo (“un-”) and së (“un-”).^[1]

Adverb

mos

1. don't

References

Etymology

From Latin nos, with the initial consonant influenced by the first-person singular object pronoun me (“me”).

Pronoun

mos

1. Benasquese and Low Ribagorçan form of nos (“us”, first-person plural dative and accusative pronoun)

References

• “nos”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Pronoun

mos

1. Alternative form of nos

Etymology

Clipping of bamos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmos/ [ˈmos]

Verb

mós (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓᜐ᜔)

1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) to go

   Synonym: madya

   Mos! (Mos na kita!)

   Let's go now!

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmɤːlᴮ (“new”). Cognate with Thai ใหม่ (mài), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩲ᩵, Lao ໃໝ່ (mai), Lü ᦺᦖᧈ (ṁay¹), Tai Dam ꪻꪢ꪿, Shan မႂ်ႇ (màue), Tai Nüa ᥛᥬᥱ (mǎue), Ahom 𑜉𑜧 (maw) or 𑜉𑜨𑜧 (mow), Zhuang moq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo˧˥/

Adjective

mos

1. new

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin morsus (“a bite”), from mordeō (“bite”).

Etymology 2

From nos, assimilated to the -m ending in reflexive constructions.

Etymology 3

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mōs, reduced form of Latin meōs.

Further reading

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

Etymology 1

From Old Norse *mós, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“mush, porridge”).

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mosi, mose, from Proto-Germanic *musą.

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

See also

• mose

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mos
• Rhymes: -ɔs

Noun

mos n (plural mossen, diminutive mosje n)

1. moss (small seedless plant(s) growing on surfaces)

   Hypernym: plant

2. lichen (symbiotic association(s) of algae and fungi)

   Synonym: korstmos

3. (obsolete, rare) swamp, marsh

Anagrams

• som

Determiner

mos

1. masculine plural of mon

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *mośke-.^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoʃ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oʃ

Verb

mos

1. (transitive) to wash something (to clean with water, including brushing one’s teeth)

   Perfectives: megmos, kimos, lemos

   Troponyms: csutakol, öblít, sikál, súrol, suvickol

   Hypernym: tisztít

   kezet, arcot mos ― to wash one’s hands, face

   fogat mos ― to brush one’s teeth

References

Further reading

• mos in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Anagrams

• som

Etymology

From Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa), Proto-Indo-Iranian *māmsám, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms.

Noun

mos

1. meat

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mōs, root noun interpreted as s-stem noun of uncertain origin. Generally believed to derive from Proto-Indo-European *moh₁-, *meh₁- (“to intend or be intent upon, to be of strong will”) (though the more common meaning of "to measure" may be the original, with "to intend" as a semantic extension),^[1] whence Ancient Greek μαίομαι (maíomai, “to strive”) and perhaps Ancient Greek Μοῦσᾰ (Moûsă, “Muse”), and also English mood.

It has also been conjectured that some senses of mōs, such as those having to do with "manner" and "way", may indicate a possible derivation from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”), compare and contrast modus; if that is true, it would seem to suggest an example of combined etymology or etymologic conflation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /moːs/, [moːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mos/, [mɔs]

Noun

mōs m (genitive mōris); third declension

1. manner (of behaving), way (of behaving); behavior, conduct

   Synonym: modus

   • 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos :

     Quid istuc, quaeso? qui istic mos est, Clitipho? itane fieri oportet?

     Tell me, what are you up to? What sort of behavior’s this, Clitipho? Is this the proper way to act?

   • 27 BCE – 9 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita Libri 28:

     Ceterum asperitas locorum et Celtiberis, quibus in proelio concursare mos est, velocitatem inutilem faciebat...

     But the roughness of the ground made nimbleness of no use to the Celtiberians, whose manner it is to be skirmishers in battle...

   • 60 CE – 65 CE, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium Epistula LXXXVI:

     Magna ergo me voluptas subiit contemplantem mores Scipionis ac nostros.

     It was therefore a great pleasure to me to contrast Scipio’s ways with our own.

2. custom, habit, practice, usage, wont

   Synonyms: habitus, usus, solitum, exemplum

   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe :

     Vah! quam vellem etiam noctu amicis operam mos esset dari!

     Oh! How I wish it was the custom to offer services to friends at night as well!

   • 63 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam Secunda :

     Interfectum esse L. Catilinam et gravissimo supplicio adfectum iam pridem oportebat, idque a me et mos maiorum et huius imperi severitas et res publica postulabat.

     Lucius Catilina ought to have suffered the supreme penalty and been put to death long ago, a course required of me by the practice of our ancestors, the stern tradition of my office, and by interests of state.

   • 41 BCE – 40 BCE, Gaius Sallustius Crispus, De Bello Iugurthino :

     Ceterum mos partium popularium et factionum ac deinde omnium malarum artium paucis ante annis Romae ortus est otio atque abundantia earum rerum quae prima mortales ducunt.

     Furthermore, the usage of political groups and factions, and afterward of all evil practices, originated at Rome a few years before this as the result of peacetime and of an abundance of those things that mortals prize most highly.

   • 40 BCE – 35 BCE, Gaius Sallustius Crispus, Historiae Liber IV :

     ...qui quidem mos ut tabes in urbem coiectus...

     ...which habit, in truth, foisted upon the City, like a plague...

   • 13 BCE, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina, Liber IV :

     ...nullis polluitur casta domus stupris, mos et lex maculosum edomuit nefas...

     ...the home is pure, unstained by any lewdness, custom and law have gained control over the plague of vice...

   • 60 CE – 65 CE, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium Epistula XV:

     Mos antiquis fuit usque ad meam servatus aetatem.

     The old Romans had a custom which survived even into my lifetime.

   • 121 CE, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De vita Caesarum Liber VI: Nero:

     Reversus e Graecia Neapolim, quod in ea primum artem protulerat, albis equis introiit disiecta parte muri, ut mos hieronicarum est...

     Returning from Greece, since it was at Naples that he had made his first appearance, he entered that city with white horses through a part of the wall which had been thrown down, as is the custom with victors in the sacred games...

   • 121 CE, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De vita Caesarum Liber VII: Galba:

     ...ut triumphaturi Caesares inde laureas decerperent; fuitque mos triumphantibus, alias confestim eodem loco pangere; et observatum est sub cuiusque obitum arborem ab ipso institutam elanguisse.

     ...moreover it was the habit of those who triumphed to plant other branches at once in that same place, and it was observed that just before the death of each of them the tree which he had planted withered.

3. (predominantly plural) character; disposition, inclination, temperament

   Synonyms: animus, dispositiō, inclīnātiō, temperamentum

   • 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos :

     Edepol te, mea Antiphila, laudo et fortunatam iudico, id quom studuisti isti formae ut mores consimiles forent...

     In heaven’s name, my dear Antiphila, I congratulate you and I judge you fortunate, in that you have made it your concern to see that your temperament matches your beauty...

   • 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos :

     Vobis cum uno semel ubi aetatem agere decretumst viro, quoius mos maxume consimilis vostrum, hi se ad vos applicant.

     With you, on the other hand, once you have decided to live your life with the one man whose disposition is most compatible with yours, they devote themselves to you.

   • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Marcus Tullius 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.

   • 116 CE, Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales :

     Multa sine dubio saevaque Augustus de moribus adulescentis questus, ut exilium eius senatus consulto sanciretur, perfecerat; ceterum in nullius umquam suorum necem duravit, neque mortem nepoti pro securitate privigni inlatam credibile erat. Propius vero Tiberium ac Liviam, illum metu, hanc novercalibus odiis, suspecti et invisi iuvenis caedem festinavisse. Nuntianti centurioni, ut mos militiae, factum esse quod imperasset, neque imperasse sese et rationem facti reddendam apud senatum respondit.

     It was beyond question that by his frequent and bitter strictures on the youth’s character Augustus had procured the senatorial decree for his exile: on the other hand, at no time did he harden his heart to the killing of a relative, and it remained incredible that he should have sacrificed the life of a grandchild in order to diminish the anxieties of a stepson. More probably, Tiberius and Livia, actuated in the one case by fear, and in the other by stepmotherly dislike, hurriedly procured the murder of a youth whom they suspected and detested. To the centurion who brought the usual military report, that his instructions had been carried out, the emperor rejoined that he had given no instructions and the deed would have to be accounted for in the senate.

4. will, self-will, humor, caprice

   Synonyms: arbitrium, voluntas

   • 190 BCE, Titus Maccius Plautus, Truculentus :

     Tu dedisti iam, hic daturust: istuc habeo, hoc expeto. Uerum utrique mos geratur amborum ex sententia.

     You have already given, he will still give: yours I have, his I’m seeking. But each of you will be gratified according to your wishes.

   • 191 BCE, Titus Maccius Plautus, Pseudolus :

     Mos tibi geretur. Sed quid hoc, quaeso?

     I will obey you. But what’s this, please?

5. (transf.) quality, nature, mode, fashion
   • 35 BCE – 34 BCE, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Satira IX :

     Ibam forte Via Sacra, sicut meus est mos nescio quid meditans nugarum, totus in illis...

     I was strolling by chance along the Sacred Way, a musing after my fashion (literally, as is my custom) on some trifle or other, and wholly intent thereon...

6. (transf.) precept, law, rule
7. (plural only) morals, principles
   • 63 BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam Prima :

     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?

References

Further reading

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

Further reading

• mos maiorum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old English mos (“moss”). Related to mese, from Old English mēos.

Noun

mos

1. moss

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *mōs, 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.

Etymology

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

Noun

mos n

1. moss

Alternative forms

• mus

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *moxs, from Proto-Indo-European *moḱs, whence also Sanskrit मक्षू (makṣū, “fast; early”), Avestan 𐬨𐬊𐬱𐬎 (mošu, “soon, quickly”), Latin mox (“soon”). Doublet of moch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mos]

Adverb

mos (preverbal; followed by the dependent form of the verb)

1. soon
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 28^c9

     Fo·mentar mo rígtin-se; mos riccub-sa.

     May you take heed of my arrival; I shall arrive soon.

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mos-, mus-, mo-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 241; reprinted 2017

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mos/

Adjective

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

Etymology

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]

Noun

mos

1. moose

References

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mass.

Noun

mos m (uncountable)

1. a cup

References

• mos in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːs/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse *mós, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“mush, porridge”).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

References

• mos in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mos in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• som

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɒ˩/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *mənX/H (“fine (as of flour)”).^[1]

Etymology 2

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *məuŋX (“fly (insect)”),^[1] borrowed from Middle Chinese 蠓 (MC muwng|muwngX, “midge”).^[2]

Etymology 3

Probably borrowed from Chinese 摩 (mó, “to rub”).^[3]

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 130.