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mora | mira |

As a noun mora

is a delay in bringing a claim.

As a proper noun Mira is

a binary star in the constellation Cetus, Omicron (ο) Ceti. The system contains a variable red giant and a white dwarf. Its brightness varies from a magnitude 2 at its brightest to a magnitude 10 at its dimmest.

mora

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (Scottish law) A delay in bringing a claim.
  • (poetics) 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 .
  • (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).

    • See also

    * syllable

    Derived terms

    * bimoraic * monomoraic * moraic * moraically * nonmoraic

    Etymology 2

    New Latin from a botanical name, perhaps from Tupi.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any fish of the genus Mora
  • # The common mora
    • Synonyms
    * (common mora) ribaldo, (goodly-eyed cod) (US), (googly-eyed cod) (NZ)

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (-)
  • (finger-counting game)

    • Etymology 5

    From the (etyl) .

    Noun

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

    • Anagrams

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    mira

    English

    (wikipedia Mira)

    Etymology 1

    Named by the astronomer in 1662. From (etyl)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (star) A binary star in the constellation Cetus, Omicron (?) Ceti. The system contains a variable red giant and a white dwarf. Its brightness varies from a magnitude 2 at its brightest to a magnitude 10 at its dimmest.

    • Etymology 2

    Name of a 16th century Indian poetess, also called , from (etyl) , ultimately from (etyl). (fa) * As occasionally borne by anglophones in the West, the name may also be borrowed from Slavic languages, or be a short form of Miranda.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1961 , A House for Mr Biswas , Penguin Books 1977, ISBN 0140030255, page 366:
    • Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira , Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones.

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