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- Latin · derived frommōrōsus“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”
- French · derived frommorose
- English todaymorose
From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.