μωρός

• μῶρος (môros) — Attic

Of unclear origin. Traditionally compared with Sanskrit मूर (mūrá, “dull, stupid, foolish”), from Proto-Indo-European *mowHrós, *muHrós (“dull, stupid”), with ablaut ō(u) : ū. However, this ablaut is now considered unacceptable. Words in the semantic category that the Greek belongs to ("slow, foolish") often involve irregular changes and lexical crosses, which makes analysis difficult.^[1]

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

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

• Greek: μωρός (morós)
• → Old Armenian: մորոս (moros)

From the neuter singular:

• Greek: μωρό (moró, “baby”)
• → Mingrelian: ბორო (boro)
• → English: moron (learned) (see there for further descendants)

From the masculine vocative singular:

• Greek: μωρέ (moré)
• Byzantine Greek: βρέ (bré)
  • Greek: βρε (vre), ρε (re)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بره (bre), به (be)
    • → Albanian: bre
    • → Bulgarian: бе (be), ве (ve), уе (ue)
    • → Macedonian: бе (be), бре (bre)
    • → Romanian: bre
    • → Serbo-Croatian: bre
    • Turkish: bre

• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

From Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós).

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

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.

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

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