From Latin mōrēs, the plural of mōs.

• IPA: /ˈmɔː.ɹeɪz/

mores (plural p)

1. A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
   • 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 99:

     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.

• French: mœurs, coutume
• German: Sitte, Sittenkodex, Bräuche, Sitte, Gepflogenheiten, Konventionen, Lebensweise, Gebräuche, Normen
• Portuguese: moras, costumes
• Russian: нрав

• IPA: /mɔː.ɹz/

1. plural form of more

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative of more