mores

Etymology 1

From Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs.

noun

1. A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
   All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past — a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores, political and religious restrictions. 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 99
   It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos with its plural mores, and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the mores — the rules of behaviour — of a society. 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, Anchor Books, page 165

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

noun

1. plural of more

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of more