morale

Borrowed from French moral.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɑːl/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /məˈɹæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

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; the staff 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.

   A morale-boosting exercise

   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times‎:

     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.

• esprit de corps

• → Welsh: morâl

• Lamore, Melora, Merola

From moralo +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): [moˈrale]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra‧le

morale

1. morally

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁal/

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morale f (plural morales)

1. ethics, morality

morale

1. feminine singular of moral

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

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

• IPA^(key): /moˈra.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: mo‧rà‧le

morale (plural morali)

1. moral

morale f (plural morali)

1. morals
2. moral philosophy

morale m (plural morali)

1. morale

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

• Merola, malore, molare, molera, molerà

mōrāle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of mōrālis

• 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)

Borrowed from English morale, from French moral, from Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis.

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈra.lɛ/

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• Rhymes: -alɛ
• Syllabification: mo‧ra‧le

morale n (indeclinable)

1. morale (capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
2. morals

morale

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

• morale in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• morale in Polish dictionaries at PWN