morale

Borrowed from French morale.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹɑːl/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /məˈɹæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

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morale (countable and uncountable, plural morales)

1. 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.

• esprit de corps

• → Welsh: morâl

• Lamore, Melora, Merola

From moralo +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): [moˈrale]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: mo‧ra‧le

morale

1. morally

From Latin moralis

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁal/

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morale f (plural morales)

1. ethics, morality

morale

1. feminine singular of moral

• “morale”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin mōrālis, derived from mōs (“custom, way; law”).

• IPA^(key): /moˈra.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: mo‧rà‧le

morale (plural morali)

1. moral

morale f (plural morali)

1. morals
2. moral philosophy

morale m (plural morali)

1. morale

• moralista
• moralistico
• moralità
• moralizzare
• moralizzatore
• moralmente

• Merola, malore, molare, molera, molerà

mōrāle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of mōrālis

• 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)

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morale

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• IPA^(key): /mɔˈra.lɛ/

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• Rhymes: -alɛ
• Syllabification: mo‧ra‧le

Learned borrowing from Latin mōrāle.

morale n (indeclinable)

1. morale (capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others)
2. morals (moral practices or teachings; modes of conduct)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

morale m inan

1. locative/vocative singular of morał

• morale in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• morale in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• morale in PWN's encyclopedia

morale

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of morar combined with le