morale

See also: morāle and morālē

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French moral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈɹɑːl/
• IPA^(key): /məˈɹæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

morale (countable and uncountable, plural morales)

1. The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.

   After the layoffs morale was at an all time low, they were so dispirited nothing was getting done.

   Morale is an important quality in soldiers. With good morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.

   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

     Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.

Synonyms

• esprit de corps

Descendants

• → Welsh: morâl

Translations

capacity

• Arabic: روح معنوية (rwh maenawia)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 士氣／士气 (si⁶ hei³), 士气 (si⁶ hei³)

  Mandarin: 士氣／士气 (zh) (shìqì), 士气 (zh) (shìqì)

• Czech: morálka f
• Dutch: moreel (nl) n
• Finnish: moraali (fi)
• French: moral (fr) m
• German: Moral (de) f
• Greek: ηθικό (el) n (ithikó), φρόνημα (el) n (frónima)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: korsa, daya juang (id)
• Irish: meanma f, misneach (ga) m, sprid (ga) f
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• Italian: morale (it) m
• Japanese: 士気 (ja) (しき, shiki)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: روحیه (fa) (ruhiyye)
• Portuguese: ânimo (pt), disposição (pt), moral (pt) m
• Russian: боево́й дух m (bojevój dux), настрой (ru) m (nastroj)
• Scottish Gaelic: meanmna m, misneachd f, spiorad m, smior m
• Shan: ႁႅင်းၸႂ် (héng tsǎue)
• Spanish: entusiasmo (es) m, ánimo (es) m, disposición (es) f
• Swedish: -moral c, stridsmoral c, arbetsmoral c
• Tagalog: katatagang-loob
• Vietnamese: tinh thần (vi)
• Welsh: morâl m

Anagrams

• Lamore, Melora, Merola

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁal/

• Audio:

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Noun

morale f (plural morales)

1. Ethics, morality

Adjective

morale

1. feminine singular of moral

Further reading

• “morale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin mōrālem, form of mōrālis, derived from mōs (“custom, way; law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moˈra.le/, [moˈr̺äːl̺e̞]
• Hyphenation: mo‧rà‧le

Adjective

1. moral

Noun

morale f (plural morali)

1. morals
2. moral philosophy

morale m (plural morali)

1. morale

Related terms

• moralista
• moralistico
• moralità
• moralizzare
• moralizzatore
• moralmente

Anagrams

• malore
• molare
• molerà

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) mōrāle

1. nominative neuter singular of mōrālis
2. accusative neuter singular of mōrālis
3. vocative neuter singular of mōrālis

References

• morale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English morale.

Pronunciation

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Noun

morale n

1. morale (“the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal”)

Usage notes

• Mostly used in a singular.

Declension

Declension of morale

	singular	plural
nominative	morale	morale
genitive	morale	morale
dative	morale	morale
accusative	morale	morale
instrumental	morale	morale
locative	morale	morale
vocative	morale	morale

Related terms

• moralista
• moralność
• morał
• moralizowanie
• moralizować
• moralnie

Noun

1. locative singular of morał
2. vocative singular of morał

Further reading

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