morale
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məˈɹɑːl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /məˈɹæl/
- Rhymes: -æl
Noun[edit]
morale (countable and uncountable, plural morales)
- The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.
- After the layoffs, morale was at an all time low; the staff were so dispirited nothing was getting done.
- Morale is an important quality in soldiers. With good morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.
- A morale-boosting exercise
- 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times[1], retrieved 2 November 2012:
- Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.
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Descendants[edit]
- → Welsh: morâl
Translations[edit]
the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others
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Anagrams[edit]
Esperanto[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
morale
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
morale f (plural morales)
Adjective[edit]
morale
Further reading[edit]
- “morale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin mōrālis, derived from mōs (“custom, way; law”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
morale (plural morali)
Noun[edit]
morale f (plural morali)
Noun[edit]
morale m (plural morali)
Related terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
mōrāle
References[edit]
- morale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin mōrāle.
Noun[edit]
morale n (indeclinable)
- morale (capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others)
- morals (moral practices or teachings; modes of conduct)
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun[edit]
morale m inan
Further reading[edit]
- morale in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- morale in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- morale in PWN's encyclopedia
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
morale
- second-person singular voseo imperative of morar combined with le
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