Editing Moirai (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Rundscheibe Drei Parzen KGM AE470.jpg|thumb|''The Three Fates'', [[Tondo (art)|tondo]] by [[Hans Vischer]], c. 1530 ([[Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin]])]]

The word Moirai, also spelled '''Moirae''' or '''Mœræ''',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-26 |title=Moirai {{!}} Definition of Moirai in English by Oxford Dictionaries |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/moirai |access-date=2024-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326064159/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/moirai |archive-date=26 March 2018 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/moirai Moirai] in [[Collins English Dictionary]]</ref> comes from {{langx|grc|μοῖρα}}, which means "lots, destinies, apportioners". It also means a portion or lot of the whole. It is related to ''meros'', "part, lot" and ''moros'', "fate, doom".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Moira {{!}} Etymology of the name Moira by etymonline |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/Moira |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=www.etymonline.com |language=en}}</ref> The possible derived [[Latin]] ''meritum'', "reward", [[English language|English]] ''merit'', maybe coming from the [[PIE|Proto-Indo-European language]] root ''*(s)mer'', "to allot, assign".<ref>{{Cite web |title=merit {{!}} Etymology of merit by etymonline |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/merit |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=www.etymonline.com |language=en}}</ref>

In addition'', Moira'' may mean

* portion or share in the distribution of booty ({{Lang|grc|ίση μοῖρα}}, {{Lang|grc-Latn|ísē moîra}}, "equal booty"),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, μοῖρα |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=moi=ra |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu |at=Iliad 9.318}}</ref>
* portion in life, lot, destiny, ({{Lang|grc|μοῖραv ἔθηκαν ἀθάνατοι}}, {{Lang|grc-Latn|moîran éthēken athánatoi}}, "the immortals fixed the destiny"),<ref>''[[Odyssey]]'' 19.152: Lidell, op.cit.</ref>
* death ({{Lang|grc|μοῖρα θανάτοιο}}, {{Lang|grc-Latn|moîra thanátoio}}, "destiny of death"), 
* portion of the distributed land.<ref>The citizens of [[Sparta]] were called ''omoioi'' (equals), indicating that they had equal parts ("isomoiria" ἰσομοιρία) of the allotted land</ref> 
* mete and right ({{Lang|grc|κατὰ μοῖραν}}, {{Lang|grc-Latn|kata moîran}}, "according to fate, in order, rightly").<ref>[[Iliad]] 16.367: Lidell, op.cit.</ref>