%0 Journal Article %T A Syntactic Characterization of Morita Equivalence %A Dimitris Tsementzis %J Mathematics %D 2015 %I arXiv %X We characterize Morita equivalence of theories in the sense of Johnstone in terms of a new syntactic notion of a common definitional extension developed by Barrett and Halvorson for cartesian, regular, coherent, geometric and first-order theories. This provides a purely syntactic characterization of the relation between two theories that have equivalent categories of models naturally in any Grothendieck topos. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02302v1