mora

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A delay in bringing a claim.
  2. Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
    — 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.
  3. The common mora (Mora moro).
  4. Alternative form of morra (“finger-counting game”). alt-of,alternative,uncountable
  5. An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites. historical
  6. Alternative form of morah (“stool”). India,alt-of,alternative
  7. A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
    — 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.
  8. 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).
    — 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.

词形变化

morae plural moras plural moras plural moras plural morai plural moras plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bimoraic bimoric dimoraic dimoric heptamoric hexamoric monomoraic monomoric moraic moric moraically morically moraify moratorium nonmoraic nonmoric pentamoraic pentamoric quadrimoraic quadrimoric submoraic tetramoraic tetramoric trimoraic trimoric
相关词
in mora syllable

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Latin moralbor.
English mora
Learned borrowing from Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).
词源 2
From New Latin from a botanical name, from Tupi moira-tinga and/or Arawak mora.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μείρομαι (meíromai)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek μόρᾱ (mórā)lbor.
English mora
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μόρᾱ (mórā).
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