mora

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːɹə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹə

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

mora (plural morae or moras)

1. (Scots law) A delay in bringing a claim.
3. (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.

5. (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.

• in mora

• syllable

From 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 μόρᾱ (mórā).

mora (plural morai)

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

mora (plural moras)

1. (India) Alternative form of morah (“stool”).

• Mora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• moar, roam, Maor, Roma, Oram, Omar, Amor, armo, amor, roma, Ramo, Armo

mora

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

Borrowed from Latin mōra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmo.ɾa]

mora f (plural mores)

1. (law) delay

   Synonym: demora

2. (phonetics, poetry) mora

• moraic

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mōra, from mōrum.

• móra (pre-2016)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmo.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmo.ɾa]

mora f (plural mores)

1. mulberry
2. blackberry

• morera

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• Hyphenation: mo‧ra

mora

1. vetiver (Chrysopogon zizanioides)

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

From Latin mora.

mora

1. (linguistics) mora

Named after Swedish Mora in Sweden.

mora (colloquial)

1. knife, hunting knife

• armo

• amora

From Old Galician-Portuguese mora (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *mora, from Latin mōrum, from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾa̝/

mora f (plural moras)

1. blackberry
   • 1845, Alberto Camino, O desconsolo:

     Xa non iremos mais po-los roleiros
     en compaña amorosa áas moras, non.
     Nin baixo dos follosos ameneiros
     as coitas che direi do corazon.

     We'll no longer go by the hedges
     in loving company for blackberries, no.
     Nor under the leafy alders
     the afflictions of the heart I'll tell you.

2. mulberry (fruit)

mora

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

• amor, Omar, ramo, roma, Roma

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

   Synonyms: úa og grúa, hellingur

   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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ra/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: mò‧ra

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

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

• moro (“blackberry tree”)

From Latin mōra.

mora f (plural more)

1. (law) late fee, overdue fine

• moratorio

• mora³ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mora (archaic)

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

• muoia (non-archaic)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mora

1. feminine singular of moro

• 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 *(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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.ra]

mora f (genitive morae); first declension

1. delay, or any duration of time.

   Synonyms: cū̆nctātiō, prōlātiō, prōditiō

   sine morā

   without delay

2. (by extension) hindrance

   Synonym: retardātiō

3. obstacle, impediment

   Synonyms: impedīmentum, obstāculum

First-declension noun.

• Asturian: muera
• Italian: mora
• → Polish: mora (learned)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmoː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.ra]

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 (2003-2025), 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^[1], 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.rɑ/

mōra

1. genitive plural of mōr

Learned borrowing from Latin mōrum, from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /mɔra/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /mɔra/

mora f

1. (attested in Lesser Poland) sycomore (Ficus sycomorus)
   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎^[2], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], page 77:

     52 sim. Puł

     [Pobil w gradze winnicze gich y mori gich w szerzawu (occidit... moros eorum in pruina)]

     Pobił w gradzie winnice jich i mory jich w *żerzawiu (occidit... moros eorum in pruina)

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “mora”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Sanskrit मयूर (mayūra).

mora m (feminine morinī)

1. peacock

   Synonyms: mayūra, sikhaṇḍī, nīlagīva

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “mora”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

• IPA^(key): /ˈmura/

mora f (plural more)

1. mulberry

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• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Syllabification: mo‧ra

Borrowed from French moire.^[1] First attested in 1677–1690.^[2] Doublet of moher.

mora f

1. moiré (a fabric, often silk, which has a watery or wavelike appearance)
2. moiré (a pattern that emerges when two grids are superimposed over one another, sometimes unintended or undesirable in many applications, such as in weaving, screenprinting, and halftoning)

Borrowed from Italian morra.^[3] First attested in 1677–1690.^[4]

mora f

1. morra (a game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers shown)

Learned borrowing from Latin mora.^[5][6] First attested in 1677–1690.^[7]

mora f

1. (poetry) mora (a unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry)
2. (phonology) mora (a unit of syllable weight used in phonology, by which stress, foot structure, or timing of utterance is determined in some languages (e.g)

Brückner rejects a relationship to mara (“mare, nightmare”).^[8] Variation of zmora.^[9] First attested in 1528.^[10]

mora f

1. (obsolete or regional) alternative form of zmora
2. (Biecz, Lasovia) synonym of niecierpliwość

• mora in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Ewa Rodek (20.02.2023) “MORA I”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “mora”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “mora”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “mora”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 1039
• Roman Zawiliński (1880) “mory”, in “Gwara brzezińska w pow. ropczyckim”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I) (in Polish), volume 8, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 230
• Szymon Matusiak (1880) “mᵘory”, in “Gwara lasowska w okolicy Tarnobrzega, studyjum dyjalektologiczne”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I) (in Polish), volume 8, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 175

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• Rhymes: -ɔɾɐ
• 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

• “mora” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

From Latin mora.

mora (plural morae)

1. (Scots law) mora (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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Italian morra.

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

mȏra f (Cyrillic spelling мо̑ра)

1. morra (ancient game)

• “mora”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

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): [ˈmɔra]

mora n

1. genitive singular of more

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾa/ [ˈmo.ɾa]

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• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• amor, maro, Omar, ramo, roma, Roma