[ˈmɔ.rɔr], [ˈmɔː.ror]
OrigoFrom mora (“delay”) + -or (deponent verb-forming suffix).
- conjugation-1, deponent, intransitiveto linger, loiter, spend time with
“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.
- conjugation-1, deponent, transitiveto delay, hinder
- conjugation-1, deponent, transitive, with-negationto delay, hinder
“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
- conjugation-1, deponent, transitiveto impede, detain, cause to wait, hinder, hold back, stay
““Quid struit, aut quā spē inimīcā in gente morātur,” — [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-1, deponent, no-perfectto be a fool
“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” — 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 amon
Formaemorārī(infinitive, present) · morārier(infinitive, present) · morātus sum(active, perfect) · moror(active, first-person, indicative, present, singular) · morāris(active, indicative, present, second-person, singular) · morāre(active, indicative, present, second-person, singular) · morātur(active, indicative, present, singular, third-person) · morāmur(active, first-person, indicative, plural, present) · morāminī(active, indicative, plural, present, second-person) · morantur(active, indicative, plural, present, third-person) · morābar(active, first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular) · morābāris(active, imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular) · morābāre(active, imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular) · morābātur(active, imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person) · morābāmur(active, first-person, imperfect, indicative, plural) · morābāminī(active, imperfect, indicative, plural, second-person) · morābantur(active, imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person) · morābor(active, first-person, future, indicative, singular) · morāberis(active, future, indicative, second-person, singular) · morābere(active, future, indicative, second-person, singular)
Fons: Vicitionarium