mora

A delay in bringing a claim.
A unit used to measure lines and stanzas of poetry.
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).

mora

mourre

Learned borrowing from Latin mora (“duration of time, delay”).

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