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moretur

moretur is a Latin form of moror, meaning “delay, linger”. It is the 3rd person singular present deponent subjunctive.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 8.5.2: … decernere senatui, reliquas impediat. sic multum ac diu ludetur, atque ita diu ut plus biennium in his tricis moretur.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 4.10.4: Moretur ergo in libertate sinentibus nobis, fruatur legato quasi omnia diligentissime caverit. Cavit enim, quae heredes bene elegit. Vale.

All forms of moror (conjugation 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.