mora

See also: Mora, móra, morá, and Móra

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔːɹə/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mora (plural morae or moras)

  1. (Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
  2. (poetics) 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.
  3. (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).

Derived terms

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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

Noun

mora (plural moras)

  1. The common mora (Mora moro)
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Etymology 4

Noun

mora (uncountable)

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

Etymology 5

From the Ancient Greek μόρᾰ (móra).

Noun

mora (plural morai)

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

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mo‧ra

Noun

mora

  1. vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides)

Italian

Noun

mora f (plural more)

  1. mulberry fruit
  2. blackberry (fruit) (and similar fruits such as loganberry)
  3. arrears

Derived terms

Verb

mora (archaic)

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

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”), from *(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/, [ˈmɔ.ra]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Noun

mora f (genitive morae); first declension

  1. delay, or any duration of time.
    sine morā
    without delay

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative mora morae
genitive morae morārum
dative morae morīs
accusative moram morās
ablative morā morīs
vocative mora morae

Derived terms

  • morātiō
  • morātōrius
  • moror

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 Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

mora m, f

  1. definite feminine singular of mor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mora f

  1. singular definite of mor

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

mora m

  1. peacock

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mora (“delay”).

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Portugal)(file)
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmɔɾɐ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmɔɾa/, /ˈmɔɾɐ/
  • Homophone: Mora

Noun

mora f (plural moras)

  1. a delay
  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)

Synonyms

Verb

mora

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of morar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of morar

Scots

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

mora (plural morae)

  1. (Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *mor, *mora, from Proto-Indo-European *mor-t- (“death”). Cognate with Lithuanian mãras (“plague, pestilence”), Latin mors (“death”) and Sanskrit मर (mara, “death, dying”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mȍra f (Cyrillic spelling мо̏ра)

  1. nightmare
Declension

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

Etymology 3

From Italian morra.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mȏra f (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ра)

  1. morra (ancient game)
Declension

Spanish

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.[1]

Etymology 2

From Latin maura (“female Moor”)

Noun

mora f (plural moras, masculine moro, masculine plural moros)

  1. feminine equivalent of moro

Etymology 3

see morar

Verb

mora

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of morar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of morar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of morar.

Etymology 4

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)

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References

  1. ↑ English (original) text from R. A. Cawson and E. W. Odell, Cawson’s Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, Eighth Edition, Elsevier Health Sciences (2008), →ISBN, page 207.
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