morula

From diminutive of Latin morum (“mulberry”).

morula (plural morulas or morulae)

1. (embryology) A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula

• moruloid

• Lamour

Learned borrowing from New Latin morula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmorulɑ/, [ˈmo̞rulɑ]
• Rhymes: -orulɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mo‧ru‧la

morula

1. (biology) morula

• solurypäle

• muurainaste

morula f (plural morulas)

1. morula

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

From mora +‎ -ula.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ru.la/, [ˈmɔrʊɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ru.la/, [ˈmɔːrulä]

morula f (genitive morulae); first declension

1. a brief delay
   • 397 CE – 401 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Confessions 11.15:

     quod tamen ita raptim a futuro in praeteritum transvolat, ut nulla morula extendatur.

     But this flies so rapidly from future to past that it cannot be extended by any delay.

First-declension noun.

• “morula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• morula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette