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*3 : [[habits]], [[manners]]

*3 : [[habits]], [[manners]]

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==Description==

==Description==

The [[Greek]] term equivalent to Latin mores is ethos (εθος, ηθος). As with the relation of mores to [[morality]], ethos is the basis of the term [[ethics]], but does not itself carry connotations of [[morality]] as much as of customary proper [[behavior]] peculiar to a given [[society]].

The [[Greek]] term equivalent to Latin mores is ethos (εθος, ηθος). As with the relation of mores to [[morality]], ethos is the basis of the term [[ethics]], but does not itself carry connotations of [[morality]] as much as of customary proper [[behavior]] peculiar to a given [[society]].

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Germanic Common Germanic] equivalent of the term is *sidu-: Gothic sidus, Old Norse siðr (whence the Icelandic siður), [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] sidu, seodu, siodu, Old High German situ, sito. The Germanic word is cognate with [[Greek]] ethos etymologically, continuing a PIE *sedhos.

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Germanic Common Germanic] equivalent of the term is *sidu-: Gothic sidus, Old Norse siðr (whence the Icelandic siður), [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] sidu, seodu, siodu, Old High German situ, sito. The Germanic word is cognate with [[Greek]] ethos etymologically, continuing a PIE *sedhos.

The [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English]  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormulum Ormulum] still had sedeful "[[modest]], virtuous, chaste", but the [[word]] was [[extinct]] by the Early Modern English period. It survives in modern Scandinavian and Continental Germanic languages. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_German Modern German] [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sitte Sitte] [[translates]] to "[[custom]], [[convention]]" but also to "decency"; the abstract noun Sittlichkeit translates to "morals, [[morality]]".

The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English]  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormulum Ormulum] still had sedeful "[[modest]], virtuous, chaste", but the [[word]] was [[extinct]] by the Early Modern English period. It survives in modern Scandinavian and Continental Germanic languages. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_German Modern German] [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sitte Sitte] [[translates]] to "[[custom]], [[convention]]" but also to "decency"; the abstract noun Sittlichkeit translates to "morals, [[morality]]".

==Anthropology==

==Anthropology==

The [[meaning]] of all these terms extend to all [[customs]] of proper [[behavior]] in a given [[society]] from more trivial conventional aspects of [[costume]], etiquette or politeness, "folkways" enforced by gentle [[social]] [[pressure]], but going beyond mere "folkways" or conventions in including [[moral]] codes and notions of [[justice]] down to strict [[taboos]], behaviour that is unthinkable within the [[society]] in question, very commonly including [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest incest] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder murder], but also the commitment of outrages specific to the [[individual]] [[society]] such as [[blasphemy]]. Such [[religious]] or sacral [[customs]] may be unpredictable and vary completely from one [[culture]] to another: while uttering the name of [[God]] may be a [[taboo]] in one culture, uttering it as often as possible may be considered pious in the extreme in another.

The [[meaning]] of all these terms extend to all [[customs]] of proper [[behavior]] in a given [[society]] from more trivial conventional aspects of [[costume]], etiquette or politeness, "folkways" enforced by gentle [[social]] [[pressure]], but going beyond mere "folkways" or conventions in including [[moral]] codes and notions of [[justice]] down to strict [[taboos]], behaviour that is unthinkable within the [[society]] in question, very commonly including [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest incest] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder murder], but also the commitment of outrages specific to the [[individual]] [[society]] such as [[blasphemy]]. Such [[religious]] or sacral [[customs]] may be unpredictable and vary completely from one [[culture]] to another: while uttering the name of [[God]] may be a [[taboo]] in one culture, uttering it as often as possible may be considered pious in the extreme in another.