mororとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmɔ.rɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɔː.ror]

動詞

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

1. (intransitive) to linger, loiter, spend time with

   Synonyms: habitō, cōnsistō

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.1:

     Prīmum argūmentum compositae mentis exīstimō posse cōnsistere et sēcum morārī.

     The first proof of a well-ordered mind, I believe, [is] the ability to remain in one place and to linger with itself.

2. (transitive) to delay, hinder

   Synonyms: dētineō, cūnctor, retardō, prōtrahō, tardō, dubitō, trahō, differō

   Antonyms: ruō, currō, accurrō, trepidō, festīnō, prōvolō, properō, corripiō, affluō, mātūrō

   1. (in negative clauses):

      aliquem nihil morārī

      to drop one's charges against someone (a customary formula for abandoning an accusation and dismissing an accused person)

      aliquid nihil morārī

      to let a thing go, to not be opposed to something; to not value, not to care about something; to not want

3. (transitive) to impede, detain, cause to wait, hinder, hold back, stay

   Synonyms: supprimō, arceō, refrēnō, obstō, cūnctor, contineō, retineō, cohibeō, intersaepiō, inclūdō, perimō, obstō, coërceō, officiō, reprimō, saepiō, comprimō

   Antonyms: līberō, eximō, absolvō, excipiō, exonerō, ēmittō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.235–236:

     “Quid struit, aut quā spē inimīcā in gente morātur,
     nec prōlem Ausoniam et Lāvīnia respicit arva?”

     [Jupiter speaks:] “What does [Aeneas] intend, or what hope detains him among hostile people, [such that] he disregards his Ausonian children and the Lavinian fields?”

Conjugation

The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

派生語

派生した語

• Italian: morare, muorarsi (dialect of Lucca)
• → Old French: morer
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: morar
  • Galician: morar
  • Portuguese: morar
• → Old Spanish: morar
  • Ladino: morar
  • Spanish: morar

語源 2

From Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós, “dull, slow”). Coined by Nero most likely. A pun based on the resemblance to its homograph.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈmoː.rɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈmɔː.ror]

動詞

mōror (present infinitive mōrārī); first conjugation, deponent, no perfect or supine stems

1. (hapax legomenon) to be a fool
   • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars VI 33:

     Certē omnibus rērum verbōrumque contumēliīs mortuum īnsectātus est, modo stultitiae modo saevitiae arguēns; nam et mōrārī eum dēsīsse inter hominēs prōductā prīmā syllabā iocābātur multaque dēcrēta et cōnstitūta, ut īnsipientis atque dēlīrī, prō irritīs habuit.

     He certainly blamed the dead one [Claudius] with all insults, of deeds and of words, sometimes reproving his stupidity, other times his cruelty; for he jested about him having ceased to be a fool among people (with a lengthened first syllable) as well as having nullified many decrees and edicts of his, as those of an unwise and crazy one.

Conjugation

Further reading

• “moror¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moror²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moror”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “moror”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “morari”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 124
• moror in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016