Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially conforming to principles of rectitude. · Conforming to a given standard of right behaviour. · Being sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment. · Capable of right and wrong action.
noun
The ethical significance or practical lesson. · Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct. · A depiction of good or heroic actions. · A morality play.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo moralize.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *med- Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-der. Proto-Italic *mōs Latin mōs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin mōrālis Old French moralbor. Middle English moral English moral From Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”) (first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).
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