What is Immoral?

Immoral: Not moral, not conforming to moral law. Wickedness, sexual impurity, unchastity, depravity.

“Im/moral”

Im = a form of the prefix word “in”
-- before b, m, and p prefix words change N to M.
-- (1) not, opposite of
-- as in “imbalance” = “not in balance”
-- as in “impossible” = “not possible”

-- (2) in, within
-- as in “imbibe” = “drinking in” (bibe, from beber “to drink)
-- as in “impart” = “to give another part in” something

Moral = right conduct, what is right and wrong, ethics, manners (from “mano” from the hand, hence the way of “handling things”) customs…conforming to those accepted societal standards or norms

Latin: (moralis) = of manners, custom
From Indo-European: Mo/ma = desire strongly

Cicero was said to have used the word to translate the Greek word “Ethikos” (ethics). It descended to English and other Romance and Germanic languages alike.

French, Spanish, Portuguese = Moral
Italian = Morale
German = Moralisch
Dutch = Moraal
English and Scandinavian = Moral

A cognate is the word “Mod” = Mood (mind, heart, courage) in other words, “what is in your heart to do? What do you have the courage to do?” Later it took on the form of “emotion” Moral shows the switch between D & R in a word as the spoken language evolves.