- animus – bravery, character, consciousness, courage, intellect, memory, often = mind, soul, spirit, vivacity, will
- mores – character, conduct, morals, ways
- morium – character, conduct, morals, ways
- persona – actor's mask, character, part, personality, role
- virtus – character, courage, excellence, manhood, manliness, moral virtue, power, prowess, valor, virtuousness, worth
- causa mortis – cause of death
- cor aut mors – Heart or Death
- donatio mortis causa – giving in expectation of death
- in articulo mortis – at the point of death
- in personam – into a person
- in propria persona – in one's own person
- leges humanae nascuntur, vivunt, et moriuntur – laws of man are born, live and die
- mors certa, hora incerta – death is certain, its hour is uncertain
- mors omnibus – death to all
- mors tua vita mea – your death, my life
- mors vincit omnia – death conquers all" or "death always wins
- Nil igitur est mors ad nos – Death, therefore, is nothing to us.
- persona non grata – person not pleasing
- quem di diligunt adulescens moritur – he whom the gods love dies young
- ratione personae – because of the person involved
- rigor mortis – stiffness of death
- stipendium peccati mors est – the reward of sin is death
- timor mortis conturbat me – the fear of death confounds me
- victoria aut mors – Victory or death!
- vita incerta, mors certissima – Life is uncertain, death is most certain