More

See also: more, moré, môre, moře, -more, and Appendix:Variations of "mor"

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
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• Moore: moore
• Russian: мооре (moore)

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for More, mos ⁠

Etymology 2

From Scottish Gaelic mór (“big”). Also a variant of Moore.

Alternative forms

• Morus (Latinized)

Pronunciation

• enPR: môr, IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹ/
• enPR: mô, IPA^(key): /ˈmɔː/
• enPR: mōr, IPA^(key): /ˈmo(ː)ɹ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmoə/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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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 (plural Mores)

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Further reading

• Thomas More on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ/

Noun

More m (plural Mores)

1. Alternative spelling of Maure; Moor

Anagrams

• orme
• Rome

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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

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French More, from Latin Maurus.

Noun

More m (plural Mores)

1. Moor (person of Berber descent)