MORTAL - MORTALITY are related to the Greek μό?ος (moro

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MORTAL - MORTALITY are related to the Greek μό?ος (moro

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The adj MORTAL (deadly, doomed to die) derives from the Latin mortalis (subject to death) from mors (death, gen. mortis), which is related to the Greek μό?ος (moros; death) from the verb μεί?ω (miro; separate, split, divide; as the dead is separated from all the others).
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From the same root: mortality, immortality, murder, mortuary
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In modern Greek
α) μοί?α: fate, destiny, portion, degree [mira]
β) μοι?άζω: divide, share (out/in) [mirazo]
γ) μοι?αίο: fate, doom, death, fatality [mireo]
δ) μοι?αίος: fatal, mortal [mireos]

More: http://ewonago.blogspot.com/2008/06/mor ... urder.html

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Now that these posts are perhaps more etymologically precise ("related to"), I am still wondering what their overall purpose is here on TextKit.

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This is the "Learning Greek" forum and the purpose of these posts is to help people learn more easily Greek by relating english words to Greek cognates.

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Neos wrote:This is the "Learning Greek" forum and the purpose of these posts is to help people learn more easily Greek by relating english words to Greek cognates.
Then you should use ancient Greek vocabulary.
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Neos wrote:This is the "Learning Greek" forum and the purpose of these posts is to help people learn more easily Greek by relating english words to Greek cognates.
In my experience, letting the student discover cognates on his or her own has a greater didactic value, but to each his own.

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