Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μῶρος ‎(môros) (Attic)

Adjective

μωρός • ‎(mōrós) m ‎(feminine μωρά, neuter μωρόν); first/second declension

1. slow, sluggish
2. slow, dull, foolish, stupid
3. insipid, flavorless, flat

Inflection

Descendants

• English: moron
• Greek: μωρός ‎(morós)
• Greek: μωρό ‎(moró, “baby”)

References

• μωρός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μωρός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μωρός» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G3474”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μωρός ‎(mōrós)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈɾos/
• Hyphenation: μω‧ρός

Adjective

μωρός • ‎(morós) m ‎(feminine μωρή, neuter μωρό)

1. stupid, silly, daft, simple

   Δεν θέλω να κάθομαι να ακούω μωρές κουβέντες.‎ ― Den thélo na káthomai na akoúo morés kouvéntes. ― I don't want to sit and listen to stupid conversations.

Declension

Synonyms

• ανόητος ‎(anóitos, “stupid, dumb”)
• κουτός ‎(koutós, “stupid, dumb”)
• άμυαλος ‎(ámyalos, “brainless, stupid”)

Antonyms

• έξυπνος ‎(éxypnos, “clever”)
• συνετός ‎(synetós, “wise”)
• ανοιχτομάτης ‎(anoichtomátis, “sharp-eyed”)
• ευφυής ‎(effyís, “bright, witty”)