Translation
custom, social convention; mores, ways of a people
Word origin
From Latin mos, plural mores, the settled custom of a community. English took the plural whole as mores, and the same root gives moral and morality.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- mos, mores
- English cognates
- mores, moral, morale
Examples
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Every people has its own customs.
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The customs of the village are very old.
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He does not understand the customs of that country.
The seam people invent here is - from , and it is not there: death is mort-, custom is -, two unrelated Latin words that the spelling brings uncomfortably close. Nor is a clipping of , which is its own borrowing for the moral of a story or the morality of an act. In practice lives in the plural, , much as English reaches for mores rather than more. A single is one specific custom, and covers the everyday habit.
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