mora

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.2 See also 1.4 Anagrams 2 Italian 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Derived terms 2.1.2 Related terms 3 Latin 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Inflection 3.1.2 Derived terms 3.1.3 Descendants 4 Scots 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Noun 5 Serbo-Croatian 5.1 Etymology 1 5.1.1 Pronunciation 5.1.2 Noun 5.1.2.1 Declension 5.2 Etymology 2 5.2.1 Pronunciation 5.2.2 Noun 5.2.2.1 Declension 5.3 Etymology 3 5.3.1 Pronunciation 5.3.2 Noun 5.3.2.1 Declension 6 Spanish 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Noun 6.2.1 Synonyms 6.2.2 Related terms

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /'mɔ:ɹə/, SAMPA: /"mO:r@/

[edit] Etymology 1

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

[edit] 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", American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures 35: 20-54

     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).

[edit] Etymology 2

New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.

[edit] Noun

mora (plural moras)

1. (botany) A genus 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.

[edit] See also

• common mora
• goodly-eyed cod
• googly-eyed cod
• ribaldo
• syllable

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: Amor
• moar
• Omar
• roam
• Roma

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

mora f. (plural more)

1. mulberry fruit
2. blackberry (fruit)
3. arrears

[edit] Derived terms

• mora di rovo

[edit] Related terms

• moro

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Noun

mora (genitive morae); f, first declension

1. Delay, or any duration of time.

[edit] Inflection

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

[edit] Derived terms

• morātōrius
• morārī

[edit] Descendants

• English: moratory, moratorium

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Etymology

From Latin.

[edit] Noun

mora (plural morae)

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

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *mor, *mora, frmo Proto-Indo-European *mor-t- (“‘death’”). Cognate with Lithuanian mãras (“‘plague, pestilence’”), Latin mors (“‘death’”) and Sanskrit मर (mara), “‘death, dying’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /môra/
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra

[edit] Noun

mȍra f. (Cyrillic spelling мо̏ра)

1. nightmare

[edit] Declension

[edit] Etymology 2

Frmo Latin mora (“‘duration of time, delay’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /mǒːra/
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra

[edit] Noun

móra f. (Cyrillic spelling мо́ра)

1. (phonology, poetics) mora

[edit] Declension

[edit] Etymology 3

From Italian morra.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /môːra/
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra

[edit] Noun

mȏra f. (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ра)

1. morra (ancient game)

[edit] Declension

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology

Vulgar Latin mora, from Latin morum.

[edit] Noun

mora f. (plural moras)

1. mulberry fruit
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) mole (pathology)
3. female Moor

[edit] Synonyms

• lunar m. (dark spot on the skin)

[edit] Related terms

• morado