The corpus record — Latin

mora

delay, lapse of time

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

De Est et Non, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 58.82/10k
Copa, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 42.19/10k
Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
Cento Nuptialis 3 · 21.99/10k
Troades 13 · 19.08/10k
Praefatiunculae 1 · 18.25/10k
Conon 1 · 13.62/10k
Otho 2 · 12.68/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Medea 7 · 12.37/10k
Phoenissae 5 · 12.23/10k
Fasti 36 · 11.54/10k

Densest 12 of 174 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. mora — de Vaan

delay, lapse of time

2. mŏra — Lewis & Short

a delay

3. mŏra — Lewis & Short

the fish echeneis

4. mŏra — Lewis & Short

a division of the Spartan army, consisting of three, five

5. mora — Walde–Hofmann

ae f

Attestations

6 of 1,224 attestations shown.

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 402; entry #1083 Review: Under source audit
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan p. 437; entry #7041 Review: Under source audit
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch scan p. 1016; entry #1786 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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