Mora

Quick meaning: Mora is a noun meaning (Scots law) A delay in bringing a claim.

Meaning

(Scots law) A delay in bringing a claim.

More Meanings

1. (poetry) A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
2. (botany) Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
3. The common mora (Mora moro).
4. (India) Alternative form of morah (“stool”).
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).
6. Alternative form of morra (“finger-counting game”).
7. (historical, military) An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• morae
• moras
• morai

Synonyms for mora

Depending on context, synonyms include ribaldo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antepenultimate, delay, mura, sea, medina, remeid.

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