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mora

Pronunciation: /ˈmoɾa/

“mora” is a Spanish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a mulberry, a mulberry fruit
  2. a blackberry
  3. a berry
  4. default (failure to meet an obligation on time)
  5. mora (unit of syllable weight)

In Spanish

  1. Tardanza en cumplir obligaciones y compromisos legales, como una deuda.
  2. Medida de cantidad que corresponde a una sílaba breve.
  3. Fruto de la morera (Morus alba).
  4. Fruto del moral (Morus nigra).
  5. Fruto de la zarza (Rubus fruticosus). Es una polidrupa de color morado oscuro cuando está madura.
  6. Fresa silvestre (Fragaria vesca).
  7. Frambuesa.
  8. Moral, el árbol.

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mōra, from Latin mōrum (whose plural was reanalyzed as the feminine singular), probably Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

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