μόρος
Second declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
μόρος
μόρου
Structure:
μορ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- fate, destiny
- doom, death
- corpse
- a measure of land in Locris
Declension
Second declension
The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.
Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.
- νὺξ δ’ ἔτεκεν στυγερόν τε Μόρον καὶ Κῆρα μέλαιναν καὶ Θάνατον, τέκε δ’ Ὕπνον, ἔτικτε δὲ φῦλον Ὀνείρων· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 25:1)
- Ἑκάβη δὲ παιδὸσ γνοῦσα θανάσιμον μόρον λόγῳ με τοιῷδ’ ἤγαγ’, ὡσ κεκρυμμένασ θήκασ φράσουσα Πριαμιδῶν ἐν Ἰλίῳ χρυσοῦ· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 3:1)
- ἐμοὶ δ’ ἔδοξε τὸν μὲν ἐν Τροίᾳ μόρον Ἑλένησ ἐᾶσαι, ναυπόρῳ δ’ ἄγειν πλάτῃ Ἑλληνίδ’ ἐσ γῆν κᾆτ’ ἐκεῖ δοῦναι κτανεῖν, ποινὰσ ὅσοισ τεθνᾶσ’ ἐν Ἰλίῳ φίλοι. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode8)
- ὁρᾷσ τὸν Ἀκτέωνοσ ἄθλιον μόρον, ὃν ὠμόσιτοι σκύλακεσ ἃσ ἐθρέψατο διεσπάσαντο, κρείσσον’ ἐν κυναγίαισ Ἀρτέμιδοσ εἶναι κομπάσαντ’, ἐν ὀργάσιν. (Euripides, episode 14:1)
- καὶ δειλίαν γὰρ καὶ κάκην κεκτήσομαι Ἄργει τε Φωκέων τ’ ἐν πολυπτύχῳ χθονί, δόξω δὲ τοῖσ πολλοῖσι ‐ πολλοὶ γὰρ κακοί ‐ προδοὺσ σεσῷσθαί σ’ αὐτὸσ εἰσ οἴκουσ μόνοσ ἢ καὶ φονεύσασ ἐπὶ νοσοῦσι δώμασι ῥάψαι μόρον σοι σῆσ τυραννίδοσ χάριν, ἔγκληρον ὡσ δὴ σὴν κασιγνήτην γαμῶν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 1:19)
Synonyms
-
fate
- λίνον (the thread of destiny spun by the Fates)
- θεομορία (destiny)
- δαίμων (guardian spirit , and so one's fate, destiny)
-
doom
-
corpse
-
a measure of land in Locris
