mora

Definitions

1. A delay in bringing a claim.
2. Any tree of the genus Mora of large South American trees.
3. The common mora (Mora moro).
4. An ancient Spartan military unit of about a sixth of the Spartan army, typically composed of hoplites.
   historical
5. A female given name.
6. bioresonance therapy
7. A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
8. A city, the county seat of Kanabec County, Minnesota, United States. Named after Mora, Sweden, see also Swedish Mora.
9. 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).
10. A census-designated place, the county seat of Mora County, New Mexico, United States.
11. A town and municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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⟳.”

“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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