mores: Latin form of mos, “custom, habit; (pl.) character”

mores is a Latin form of mos, meaning “custom, habit; (pl.) character”. It is the accusative plural masculine noun or nominative plural masculine noun or vocative plural masculine noun.

Found 625 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 38: … umentis accusatorem censes uti oportere? nonne et audaciam eius qui in crimen vocetur singularem ostendere et mores feros immanemque naturam et vitam vitiis flagitiisque omnibus deditam, denique omnia ad perniciem profligata …

Cicero, De Republica 5.1: … quos ita oblivione obsoletos videmus, ut non modo non colantur, sed iam ignorentur. Nam de viris quid dicam? Mores enim ipsi interierunt virorum penuria, cuius tanti mali non modo reddenda ratio nobis, sed etiam tamquam reis …

Plautus, Menaechmi 5.1.726: quin vidua vivam quam tuos móres perferam.

All forms of mos (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.