More

See also: Appendix:Variations of "more"

English

Etymology 1

From French mooré, from Moore moore (“Moore language”), from moaaga (“Mossi person”) +‎ -re (suffix for names of languages).

Alternative forms

• Mòoré, Mooré, Moré, Moshi, Mossi, Moore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔːˈreɪ/

Proper noun

More

1. The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.

Translations

Volta-Congo language

• Farefare: mõorɛ
• French: moré (fr) m, mooré (fr) m
• Moore: moore
• Russian: мооре (moore)

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for More, mos ⁠

Etymology 2

• As a Scottish and English surname, variant of Moore.
• As a French surname, from Old French more (“Moor”), respelled from Latin Maurus. Compare Mauro.
• As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from mór (“big”).
• As an Indian (Maharashtra) surname, from Marathi मोर (mor, “peacock”), from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra).

Alternative forms

• Morus (Latinized)

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: môr, IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mô, IPA^(key): /ˈmɔː/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: mōr, IPA^(key): /ˈmo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmoə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: moor, Moor, Moore (all three only in accents with the pour–poor merger); maw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger); mow (non-rhotic accents with the dough-door merger)

Proper noun

More (countable and uncountable, plural Mores)

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
2. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3491).

Further reading

• Thomas More on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Mero, Omer, Orem, Orme, Rome, erom, mero, mero-, moer, omer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ/

Noun

More m (plural Mores)

1. Alternative spelling of Maure; Moor

Anagrams

• orme
• Rome

German

Alternative forms

• Mora

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mora.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoːʁə/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: Moore

Noun

More f (genitive More, plural Moren)

1. (phonology) mora

Declension

Declension of More [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	More	die	Moren
genitive	einer	der	More	der	Moren
dative	einer	der	More	den	Moren
accusative	eine	die	More	die	Moren

Further reading

• “More” in Duden online

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French More, from Latin Maurus.

Noun

More m (plural Mores)

1. Moor (person of Berber descent)