mora

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːɹə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Etymology 1

From Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).

Noun

mora (plural morae or moras)

1. (Scots law) A delay in bringing a claim.
3. (poetry) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
   • 1918, Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, volume 35, page 22:

     In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable is considered to be equal to two morae and a light syllable equivalent to one mora.

5. (phonology) A unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g. Japanese).
   • 2011, Senko K. Maynard, Learning Japanese for Real, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 32:

     Instead of syllables, Japanese is supported by mora. (Tokyo is To-o-kyo-o, a four-mora word.) The word Nihongo consists of four morae, ni-ho-n-go, pronounced with four rhythmical units of sound.

Derived terms

Related terms

• in mora

Translations

See also

• syllable

Etymology 2

New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.

Noun

mora (plural moras)

1. (botany) Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
   • 1904, W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest:

     At length, somewhere about the centre of the wood, she led me to an immense mora tree, growing almost isolated, covering with its shade a large space of ground entirely free from undergrowth.

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

mora (plural moras)

1. The common mora (Mora moro).

Synonyms

• (common mora): ribaldo, goodly-eyed cod (US), googly-eyed cod (NZ)

Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

mora (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of morra (finger-counting game)

Etymology 5

From the Ancient Greek μόρᾱ (mórā).

Noun

mora (plural morai)

1. (historical, military) An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.

Translations

Further reading

• Mora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Amor, Omar, Oram, Roma, amor, moar, roam, roma

Albanian

Etymology

See Albanian marr (“to take”).

Verb

móra (aorist móra, participle márrë)

1. first-person singular active aorist indicative of marr (to took)

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin mōra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

mora f (plural mores)

1. (law) delay

   Synonym: demora

2. (phonetics, poetry) mora

Derived terms

• moraic

Etymology 2

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mōra, from mōrum.

Alternative forms

• móra (pre-2016 spelling)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

mora f (plural mores)

1. mulberry
2. blackberry

Derived terms

• morera

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

Noun

mora f (plural mores)

1. female equivalent of moro (“Moor”)

Further reading

• “mora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “mora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mo‧ra

Noun

mora

1. vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmorɑ/,
• Rhymes: -orɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mo‧ra

Etymology 1

From Latin mora.

Noun

mora

1. (linguistics) mora

Declension

Etymology 2

Named after Swedish Mora in Sweden.

Noun

mora (colloquial)

1. knife, hunting knife

Declension

Anagrams

• armo

Galician

Verb

mora

1. inflection of morar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese morar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu mora.

Verb

mora

1. to live somewhere
2. to reside

Icelandic

Etymology

From mor (“swarm”). Related to merja (“crush”). Cognate with Faroese mora (“to crush”).

Verb

mora

1. to be teeming with

   Það er allt morandi í stafsetningarvillum hérna. ― This is teeming with spelling errors.

   Það er allt morandi í Íslendingum á Tene. ― Tenerife is overcrowded with Icelanders.

Synonyms

• úa og grúa
• hellingur

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

mora

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *mōra, from Latin mōrum, from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: mò‧ra

Noun

mora f (plural more)

1. mulberry (fruit); fruit of a plant of the genus Morus

   Synonyms: gelso, mora del gelso

2. (by analogy) blackberry (fruit), and similar fruits such as loganberry; fruit of a plant of the genus Rubus

   Synonym: mora di rovo

3. arrears

Related terms

• moratorio
• moro (“blackberry tree”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mora (archaic)

1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of morire

Alternative forms

• muoia (non-archaic)

Anagrams

• Roma, amor, armo, armò, maro, marò, orma, ramo, ramò, roma

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese morar.

Verb

mora

1. to live somewhere
2. to reside

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *morā, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to fall into thinking, remember, care for”).

Some offer as cognates Latin memor, Ancient Greek μέρμηρα (mérmēra), μέριμνα (mérimna), μάρτυρ (mártur), μέλλειν (méllein).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ra/,

Noun

mora f (genitive morae); first declension

1. delay, or any duration of time.

   Synonyms: cūnctātiō, prōlātiō, prōditiō

   sine morā

   without delay

2. (by extension) hindrance

   Synonym: retardātiō

3. obstacle, impediment

   Synonyms: impedīmentum, obstāculum

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Asturian: muera
• → Polish: mora (learned)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ra/,

Noun

mōra

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mōrum

References

• “mŏra¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mora”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mora in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• mora in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to retard, delay a thing: moram alicui rei afferre, inferre, facere
    
  • to make all possible haste to..: nullam moram interponere, quin (Phil. 10. 1. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to detain a person: in mora alicui esse
    
  • (ambiguous) without delay: sine mora or nulla mora interposita
    
  • (ambiguous) it is customary to..: mos (moris) est, ut (Brut. 21. 84)
    
  • (ambiguous) to pass the whole day in discussion: dicendi mora diem extrahere, eximere, tollere
    
• “mora”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mora”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Anagrams

• amor, armō, Rōma

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• moren

Noun

mora m or f

1. definite feminine singular of mor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mora f

1. definite singular of mor

Old Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin mōrum, from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /mɔra/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /mɔra/

Noun

mora f

1. sycomore (Ficus sycomorus)
   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Latin-Polish-German Florian Psalter]‎, Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], page 77:

     52 sim. Puł

     [Pobil w gradze winnicze gich y mori gich w szerzawu (occidit... moros eorum in pruina)]

     Pobił w gradzie winnice jich i mory jich w *żerzawiu (occidit... moros eorum in pruina)

References

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “mora”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra).

Noun

mora m (feminine morinī)

1. peacock

   Synonyms: mayūra, sikhaṇḍī, nīlagīva

Declension

Further reading

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “mora”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmura/

Noun

mora f (plural more)

1. mulberry

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

mora

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ra/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Syllabification: mo‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French moire. First attested in 1677–1690. Doublet of moher.

Noun

mora f

1. moiré (a fabric, often silk, which has a watery or wavelike appearance)
2. moiré (a pattern that emerges when two grids are superimposed over one another, sometimes unintended or undesirable in many applications, such as in weaving, screenprinting, and halftoning)

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian morra. First attested in 1677–1690.

Noun

mora f

1. morra (a game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers shown)

Declension

Etymology 3

Learned borrowing from Latin mora. First attested in 1677–1690.

Noun

mora f

1. (poetry) mora (a unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry)
2. (phonology) mora (a unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g)

Declension

Etymology 4

Brückner rejects a relationship to mara (“mare, nightmare”). Variation of zmora. First attested in 1528.

Noun

mora f

1. (obsolete or regional) Alternative form of zmora

Declension

References

Further reading

• mora in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Ewa Rodek (20.02.2023) “MORA I”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “mora”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “mora”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “mora”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 1039

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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• Homophone: Mora

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin mora (“delay”).

Noun

mora f (plural moras)

1. a delay

   Synonyms: atraso, delonga, demora

2. (law) a delay in the payment of a debt
3. (law) a mulct for not paying a debt in time
4. (phonology) mora (unit of syllable weight)

Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

mora

1. inflection of morar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “mora” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Scots

Etymology

From Latin mora.

Noun

mora (plural morae)

1. (Scots law) mora (a delay in bringing a claim)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *mora, from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“malicious female spirit”), possibly from *mer- (“to die”). Cognate with Russian кикимора (kikimora), Lithuanian mãras (“plague, pestilence”), Latin mors (“death”), Sanskrit मर (mara, “death, dying”), English mare (“evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /môra/
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra

Noun

mȍra f (Cyrillic spelling мо̏ра)

1. (obsolete or historical) a mythical creature which feeds on people's blood while they are asleep
2. an anxiety-inducing concern, a hardship

Declension

Derived terms

• noćna mora (“nightmare”)

References

• “mora” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 2

From Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǒːra/
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra

Noun

móra f (Cyrillic spelling мо́ра)

1. (phonology, poetics) mora

Declension

References

• “mora” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 3

From Italian morra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /môːra/
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra

Noun

mȏra f (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ра)

1. morra (ancient game)

Declension

References

• “mora” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mora (Cyrillic spelling мора)

1. inflection of more (“sea”):
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

mora (Cyrillic spelling мора)

1. third-person singular present of morati (“to have to; must”)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

mora n

1. genitive singular of more

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾa/

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: mo‧ra

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *mora, from Latin mōrum.

Noun

mora f (plural moras)

1. a mulberry, a mulberry fruit
   • 2005, J. M. Arribas Castrillo and Emilio Vallina Álvarez, Hematología Clínica: Temas de Patología Médica ' (Clinical Hematology: Topics in Medical Pathology, Universidad de Oviedo, →ISBN, page 230:

     Es posible observar inclusiones lipoproteicas (cuerpos de Russell) o agregados en forma de mora (células de Mott).

     It is possible to observe inclusions of lipoprotein (Russell bodies) or aggregates in the shape of a mulberry (Mott cells).

   • 2009, Luis Alberto Moreno (Spanish translator), R. A. Cawson and E. W. Odell (English authors), Cawson Fundamentos de Medicina y Patología Oral, Octavo Edición (Cawson’s Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, Eighth Edition), Elsevier España, →ISBN, page 207:

     Los núcleos degenerativos distendidos de las células epiteliales forman un grupo que adquiere el aspecto de una mora.

     The distended degenerating nuclei of the epithelial cells cluster together to give the typical mulberry appearance.

2. a blackberry
3. a berry

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin mora (“delay”).

Noun

mora f (plural moras)

1. default (failure to meet an obligation on time)
2. (phonology) mora (unit of syllable weight)

Etymology 3

From Latin maura (“female Moor”).

Noun

mora f (plural moras)

1. female equivalent of moro

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mora

1. inflection of morar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “mora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

References

Anagrams

• amor, maro, Omar, ramo, roma, Roma