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moribus

moribus is a Latin form of mos, meaning “custom, habit; (pl.) character”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

Found 508 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.4.1: Ea res est Helvetiis per indicium enuntiata. Moribus suis Orgetoricem ex vinculis causam dicere coegerunt; damnatum poenam sequi oportebat, ut igni cremaretur.

Plautus, Mostellaria 3.2.708: átque pol néscio, ut móribus sient

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.