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morae

morae is a Latin form of mora, meaning “delay”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun.

Found 142 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.80: … tes pabulandi causa animum adverterunt, sese subito proripiunt hora circiter sexta eiusdem diei et spem nacti morae discessu nostrorum equitum iter facere incipiunt. Qua re animum adversa Caesar refectis legionibus subsequitu …

All forms of mora (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.