Translation
morality, morals; the moral of a story
Word origin
From Latin moralis, a word Cicero coined to render the Greek ethikos. He built it on mos, stem mor-, meaning custom or usage, so morality is at root what a community is in the habit of doing.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- mos, moris
- English cognates
- moral, morale, mores
Examples
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The book teaches a clear moral.
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He talks about morality, but does not respect it.
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Every people has its own morality.
does two jobs: the system of right and wrong a person or a society holds, and the lesson at the end of a fable. Do not stretch it to cover morale in the sense of a unit's spirits, which Esperanto handles with or batalspirito. The adjective is morala, and its opposite a.
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