moror Latin · revision 17923

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=ine-pro *morh₂-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈmɔ.rɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈmɔː.ror]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''moror''' (present infinitive morārī or morārier, perfect active morātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

+ Ennius, Naevius and Pacuvius have the active ''morō''.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ The old infinitive ''morārier'' is also found.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[mora]] “delay”, or, as Schumacher proposed, continues an old iterative ⟨*morH-eye-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(de Vaan 2008) De Vaan derives [[m|la|mora]] from [[itc-pro|*morH-ā-|t=delay]], from [[ine-pro|*morh₂-]], and compares [[sga|maraid|t=lasts, remains]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Naevius, who uses the active form.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Plautus has ''cūr nōn vēnistī?'' – ''hic mē morātust'', “why didn't you come?” – “this man held me up”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Transitively ''morārī'' is “to delay, hold up”, “to detain, keep back”, and “to hold the attention of”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) With a negative it means “not to care about, disregard” (Virgil: ''nec dōna moror'', “I care nothing for gifts”), and in the legal formula ''nihil moror'' a prosecutor dropped a charge.^(OLD 2012) It also means “to hinder, obstruct” an action.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Intransitively it is “to delay, wait” (Plautus: ''ī, sequere illōs, nē morēre'', “go, follow them, don't delay”), “to be slow in coming”, and “to stay, stop” somewhere.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Döderlein contrasts ''[[maneō|alt=manēre]]'', to stay as opposed to going away, with ''morārī'', to linger as an interruption of movement.^(Döderlein 1874) Church Latin glosses it “delay, abide, dwell, tarry, linger”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses the active ''morō''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''hic mē morātust'';^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) ''nē morēre''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''quid sedēs, quid morāris?'', “why do you sit there, why do you delay?”^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil: ''nec dōna moror''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar writes of someone who stopped nowhere in Macedonia.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|delay]], hold up; to detain, keep back.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To hold the attention of.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''nōn morārī'', to disregard, not care about;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''nihil moror'', I drop the charge.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To hinder, obstruct.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To wait, delay, [[m|en|linger]], tarry.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To stay, stop; to dwell.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[commoror]]

+ * [[dēmoror]]

+ * [[immoror]]

+ * [[remoror]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mora]]

+ * [[maneō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A separate verb ''mōror'', with a long ''ō'', “to be a fool”, from [[grc|μωρός|tr=mōrós|t=foolish]], occurs only in a pun of Nero's: Suetonius reports that he joked that Claudius had stopped ''morārī'' among men, lengthening the first syllable.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}