morale
English Edit
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- (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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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”).
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morale (plural morali)
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morale f (plural morali)
Noun Edit
morale m (plural morali)
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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
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from English morale, from French moral, from Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin mōrālis.
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morale n (indeclinable)
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morale
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Verb Edit
morale
- second-person singular voseo imperative of morar combined with le