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|etymtx=1.<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[stupid]], [[obtuse]], [[foolish]] (IA.).<br />Other forms: Att. <b class="b3">μῶρος</b> (prob. from the voc.; Schwyzer 380 and 383)<br />Compounds: Compp., most late, e.g. <b class="b3">μωρο-λόγος</b> <b class="b2">who speaks stupidities</b> with <b class="b3">-λογία</b>, <b class="b3">-λογέω</b>, <b class="b3">-λόγημα</b> (Arist.), <b class="b3">ὑπό-μωρος</b> <b class="b2">rather stupid</b> (Luc.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">μωρία</b>, Ion. <b class="b3">-ίη</b> f. [[stupidity]] (IA.), <b class="b3">μωρίαι ἵπποι καὶ βοῦς ὑπὸ Ἀρκάδων</b> H. (sg. <b class="b3">μωρίας</b> m. like <b class="b3">ἐρυθ-ρίας</b> a.o.; meaning as NGr. <b class="b3">ἄλογο</b> = <b class="b3">ἵππος</b>), <b class="b3">Μωρίων</b> (Arc. Gramm.; to be rejected Heubeck Beitr. z. Namenforsch. 1, 281: to <b class="b3">Μυρίνη</b> etc.). Denominat. : 1. <b class="b3">μωραίνω</b> <b class="b2">be stupid, foolish</b> (A., E., X., Arist.), <b class="b2">play the fool, make foolish</b>, pass. <b class="b2">become insipid</b> (LXX, NT) with <b class="b3">μώραν-σις</b> = <b class="b3">μωρία</b> (Sch.). -- 2. <b class="b3">μωρόομαι</b> [[become]] insipid (Hp.). -- 3. <b class="b3">μωρεύω</b> = <b class="b3">μωραίνω</b> (LXX). -- 4. <b class="b3">μωρίζω</b> <b class="b2">be stupid</b> (Gal.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Not well explained. Since Pictet (s. Curtius 338) usually connected with Skt. <b class="b2">mūrá-</b> [[foolish]] (?; rather <b class="b2">erschütterlich = invalid</b> after Thumb -Hauschild Hb. des Sanskrit I : 1, 271 n.) connected with ablaut <b class="b2">ō(u</b>) : [[ū]] . Brugmann Festschr. Thomsen 6 connects <b class="b2">mūrá-</b> with Skt. <b class="b2">mū́ka-</b>'dumb' (s. <b class="b3">μυκός</b>). With words of this meaning we must reckon with deviations and crosses, which makes the comparison more difficult. -- Lat. LW [loanword] [[mōrus]] [[mad]], [[silly]], s. W. -Hofmann s.v. Ngr. <b class="b3">μωρό</b> [[nursling]] (Andriotis Glotta 25, 17).<br />2.<br />Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: <b class="b3">ὀξύ</b>, <b class="b3">μάταιον</b>, <b class="b3">ἀμβλύ</b> H.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: On the gloss <b class="b3">ὀξύ</b> Leumann, Hom. Wörter 272 n. 18.

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