morale
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məˈɹɑːl/
Audio (RP) (file)
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /məˈɹæl/
- Rhymes: -æl
NounEdit
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]:
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Welsh: morâl
TranslationsEdit
the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others
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AdverbEdit
morale
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
morale f (plural morales)
AdjectiveEdit
morale
Further readingEdit
- “morale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin mōrālis, derived from mōs (“custom, way; law”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
morale (plural morali)
NounEdit
morale f (plural morali)
NounEdit
morale m (plural morali)
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LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mōrāle
ReferencesEdit
- 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)
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English morale, from French moral, from Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
morale n (indeclinable)
NounEdit
morale
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VerbEdit
morale
- second-person singular voseo imperative of morar combined with le