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Mora
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Mora
Mora
Translingual
Etymology 1
From New Latin, perhaps from Old Tupi; compare English mora (“tree of the genus”).
Proper noun
Mora f
Hypernyms
- (genus of plant): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fabales - order; Fabaceae - family Caesalpinioideae - subfamily; Caesalpinieae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus of plant): Mora abbottii, Mora ekmanii, Mora excelsa (nato), Mora gonggrijpii (nato), Mora megistosperma, Mora oleifera, Mora paraensis - species
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Mora f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Moridae – a deep-sea fish, the common mora.
Synonyms
- (genus of fish): goodly-eyed cod, googly-eyed cod, ribaldo
Hypernyms
- (genus of fish): Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Osteichthyes - superclass; Actinopterygii - class; Neopterygii - subclass; Teleostei - infraclass; Paracanthopterygii - superorder; Gadiformes - order; Moridae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus of fish): Mora moro - sole species
- plant
- Mora (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mora (Fabaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- fish
- Common mora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mora (Moridae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Mora at Fishbase
English
Proper noun
Mora
- A female given name
Etymology 2
From the surnames of the German inventors, Franz Morell and Erich Rasche.
Proper noun
Mora
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmoːʀa/
Noun
Mora f (genitive Mora, plural Moren)
Declension
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mora f
Related terms
- morense
Swedish
Proper noun
Mora n
- a town in the province and county of Dalarna.
See also
- moraklocka
- morakniv
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English
Noun
- (Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
- (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.
- 1918, Elcanon Isaacs, “The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry”, in The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, volume 35, page 22:
- (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).
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Etymology 2
New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.
Noun
mora (plural moras)
- (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.
- 1904, W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions, A Romance of the Tropical Forest
Etymology 3
Noun
mora (plural moras)
- The common mora (Mora moro)
Synonyms
- (common mora): ribaldo, goodly-eyed cod (US), googly-eyed cod (NZ)
Translations
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Etymology 4
Noun
mora (uncountable)
- Alternative form of morra (finger-counting game)
Etymology 5
From the Ancient Greek μόρᾰ (móra).
Noun
mora (plural morai)
- An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.
Translations
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Anagrams
Italian
Noun
mora f (plural more)
- mulberry fruit
- blackberry (fruit) (and similar fruits such as loganberry)
- arrears
Derived terms
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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/
Noun
mora f (genitive morae); first declension
Declension
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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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
- MORA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mora”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)
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(ambiguous) to detain a person: in mora alicui esse
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(ambiguous) without delay: sine mora or nulla mora interposita
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(ambiguous) it is customary to..: mos (moris) est, ut (Brut. 21. 84)
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(ambiguous) to pass the whole day in discussion: dicendi mora diem extrahere, eximere, tollere
- to retard, delay a thing: moram alicui rei afferre, inferre, facere
- 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
Pali
Alternative forms
- मोर (Devanagari script)
- මොර (Sinhalese script)
- မောရ (Burmese script)
- មោរ (Khmer script)
- โมร (Thai script)
Noun
mora m
Declension
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
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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 |
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology
Noun
mora f (plural moras)
- a delay
- (law) a delay in the payment of a debt
- (law) a mulct for not paying a debt in time
- (phonology) mora (unit of syllable weight)
Synonyms
Related terms
Verb
mora
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of morar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of morar
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)
Declension
Etymology 2
From Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mǒːra/
- Hyphenation: mo‧ra
Noun
móra f (Cyrillic spelling мо́ра)
Declension
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /môːra/
- Hyphenation: mo‧ra
Noun
mȏra f (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ра)
- morra (ancient game)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *mora, from Latin mōrum.
Noun
mora f (plural moras)
- 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).
- Es posible observar inclusiones lipoproteicas (cuerpos de Russell) o agregados en forma de mora (células de Mott).
- 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.[1]
- Los núcleos degenerativos distendidos de las células epiteliales forman un grupo que adquiere el aspecto de una mora.
- 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:
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Latin maura (“female Moor”)
Noun
mora f (plural moras, masculine moro)
- (ethnicity) feminine equivalent of moro
Etymology 3
see morar
Verb
mora
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of morar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of morar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of morar.
Etymology 4
Noun
mora f (plural moras)