mora

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːɹə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

From Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).

mora (plural morae or moras)

1. (Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
2. (poetry) 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).
   • 2011, Senko K. Maynard, Learning Japanese for Real, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 32:

     Instead of syllables, Japanese is supported by mora. (Tokyo is To-o-kyo-o, a four-mora word.) The word Nihongo consists of four morae, ni-ho-n-go, pronounced with four rhythmical units of sound.

• syllable

New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.

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.

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mora (plural moras)

1. The common mora (Mora moro).

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

mora (uncountable)

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

From the Ancient Greek μόρᾰ (móra).

mora (plural morai)

1. (historical, military) An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.

• Amor, Omar, Oram, Roma, amor, moar, roam, roma

See Albanian marr (“I take”).

móra (first-person singular past tense móra, participle márrë)

1. first-person singular active aorist indicative of marr (I took)

Latin mōra

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ɾa/

mora f (plural mores)

1. (law) delay

   Synonym: demora

2. (phonetics) mora

• moraic

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ɾa/

mora f (plural mores)

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative form of móra (“blackberry, mulberry”)

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ɾa/

mora f (plural mores)

1. female equivalent of moro (“moor”)

• “mora” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “mora” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• Hyphenation: mo‧ra

mora

1. vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmorɑ/, [ˈmo̞rɑ]
• Rhymes: -orɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mo‧ra

From Latin mora.

mora

1. (linguistics) mora

Named after Swedish Mora in Sweden.

mora

1. (colloquial) knife, hunting knife

• armo

From Portuguese morar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu mora.

mora

1. to live somewhere
2. to reside

From mor (“swarm”). Related to merja (“crush”). Cognate with Faroese mora (“to crush”).

mora

1. to be teeming with

   Það er allt morandi í stafsetningarvillum hérna. ― This is teeming with spelling errors.

   Það er allt morandi í Íslendingum á Tene. ― Tenerife is overcrowded with Icelanders.

• úa og grúa
• hellingur

From Vulgar Latin *mōra, from Latin mōrum, from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: mò‧ra

mora f (plural more)

1. mulberry (fruit); fruit of a plant of the genus Morus

   Synonyms: gelso, mora del gelso

2. (by analogy) blackberry (fruit), and similar fruits such as loganberry; fruit of a plant of the genus Rubus

   Synonym: mora di rovo

3. arrears

• moratorio
• moro (“blackberry tree”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mora (archaic)

1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of morire

• muoia (non-archaic)

• Roma, amor, armo, armò, maro, marò, orma, ramo, ramò, roma

From Portuguese morar.

mora

1. to live somewhere
2. to reside

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

From Proto-Italic *morā, 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).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ra/, [ˈmɔrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ra/, [ˈmɔːrä]

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mora f (genitive morae); first declension

1. delay, or any duration of time.

   Synonym: prōditiō

   • sine morā

     without delay

2. (by extension) hindrance

   Synonym: retardātiō

3. obstacle, impediment

   Synonyms: impedīmentum, obstāculum

First-declension noun.

• Asturian: muera

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.ra/, [ˈmoːrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ra/, [ˈmɔːrä]

mōra

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mōrum

• “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
• mora in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• mora 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)
• mora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

• amor, armō, Rōma

• moren

mora m or f

1. definite feminine singular of mor

mora f

1. definite singular of mor

Inherited from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra).

mora m

1. peacock

• IPA^(key): /ˈmura/

mora f (plural more)

1. mulberry

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• Homophone: Mora

Learned borrowing from Latin mora (“delay”).

mora f (plural moras)

1. a delay

   Synonyms: atraso, delonga, demora

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)

mora

1. inflection of morar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Vulgar Latin *mōra, from Latin mōrum, from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmora/

mora f (plural moras)

1. mulberry (fruit)
2. blackberry (fruit)

From Latin mora.

mora (plural morae)

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

From Proto-Slavic *mora, from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“malicious female spirit”), possibly from *mer- (“to die”). Cognate with Russian кикимора (kikimora), Lithuanian mãras (“plague, pestilence”), Latin mors (“death”), Sanskrit मर (mara, “death, dying”), English mare (“evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person”).

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

mȍra f (Cyrillic spelling мо̏ра)

1. (obsolete or historical) a mythical creature which feeds on people's blood while they are asleep
2. an anxiety-inducing concern, a hardship

• noćna mora (“nightmare”)

• “mora” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).

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

móra f (Cyrillic spelling мо́ра)

1. (phonology, poetics) mora

• “mora” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Italian morra.

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

mȏra f (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ра)

1. morra (ancient game)

• “mora” in Hrvatski jezični portal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mora (Cyrillic spelling мора)

1. inflection of more (“sea”):
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/genitive/accusative/vocative plural

mora (Cyrillic spelling мора)

1. third-person singular present of morati (“to have to; must”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmora]

mora n

1. genitive singular of more

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾa/ [ˈmo.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: mo‧ra

From Vulgar Latin *mora, from Latin mōrum.

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, 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, 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.[1]

2. a blackberry
3. a berry

From Latin mora (“delay”).

mora f (plural moras)

1. default (failure to meet an obligation on time)
2. (phonology) mora (unit of syllable weight)

From Latin maura (“female Moor”).

mora f (plural moras)

1. female equivalent of moro

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mora

1. inflection of morar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “mora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• amor, maro, Omar, ramo, roma, Roma