mora

See also: Mora, móra, morá, and Móra

English

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

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. The common mora (Mora moro)

Synonyms

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

Translations

Mora moro

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• Spanish: merluza canaria f, mollera moranella f

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.

Translations

ancient Spartan military unit

• Greek:

  Ancient: μόρᾰ f (móra)

Anagrams

• Amor, Omar, Roma, moar, roam

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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”), 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]

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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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “mora”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “mora” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], 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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• moren

Noun

mora m, f

1. definite feminine singular of mor

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mora f

1. singular definite of mor

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• मोर (Devanagari script)
• মোর (Bengali script)
• මොර (Sinhalese script)
• မောရ (Burmese script)
• โมร (Thai script)
• ᨾᩰᩁ (Tai Tham script)
• មោរ (Khmer script)

Noun

mora m

1. peacock

Declension

Declension table of "mora" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	moro	morā
Accusative (second)	moraṃ	more
Instrumental (third)	morena	morehi or morebhi
Dative (fourth)	morassa or morāya or moratthaṃ	morānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	morasmā or moramhā or morā	morehi or morebhi
Genitive (sixth)	morassa	morānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	morasmiṃ or moramhi or more	moresu
Vocative (calling)	mora	morā

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

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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 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

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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

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 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. 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)

Anagrams

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