mora

See also: Mora

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːɹə/

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).

See also

• syllable

Derived terms

• bimoraic
• monomoraic
• moraic
• moraically
• nonmoraic

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. Any fish of the genus Mora
   1. The common mora

Synonyms

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

Etymology 4

Noun

mora (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

• Amor, moar, Omar, roam, Roma

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Italian

Noun

mora f (plural more)

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

Derived terms

• mora di rovo

Related terms

• moratorio
• moro

Anagrams

• amor
• armo, armò
• orma
• ramo, ramò
• Roma

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mere (“to delay, hinder”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ra/

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

mora f (genitive morae); first declension

1. delay, or any duration of time.

Inflection

First declension.

Number	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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Audio (Portugal)

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

Etymology

From Latin mora (“delay”).

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

• (delay): atraso, delonga, demora

Related terms

• demorar
• morar
• moratória

Verb

mora

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of morar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of morar

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Scots

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

mora (plural morae)

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

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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

    declension of mora

	singular	plural
nominative	mora	more
genitive	more	mora
dative	mori	morama
accusative	moru	more
vocative	moro	more
locative	mori	morama
instrumental	morom	morama

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

    declension of mora

	singular	plural
nominative	mora	more
genitive	more	mora
dative	mori	morama
accusative	moru	more
vocative	moro	more
locative	mori	morama
instrumental	morom	morama

Etymology 3

From Italian morra.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mȏra f (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ра)

1. morra (ancient game)

Declension

    declension of mora

	singular	plural
nominative	mora	more
genitive	more	mora
dative	mori	morama
accusative	moru	more
vocative	moro	more
locative	mori	morama
instrumental	morom	morama

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Spanish

Etymology 1

Vulgar Latin mora, from Latin morum.

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 978-84-8317-519-4, 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 978-84-8086-430-5, 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.

Related terms

• morado
• morera
• moral

Etymology 2

From Latin maura (“female Moor”)

Noun

mora f (plural moras, masculine moro)

1. (ethnicity) feminine form 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)

Anagrams

• amor
• maro
• Omar
• ramo
• roma
• Roma