Where does “mora” come from?
mora (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Italian morra, from Latin murra, from Greek Μύρρᾱ.
mora (Serbo-Croatian): nightmare; mora; morra
Ancestry of “mora”, step by step
mora traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian morra
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | morra | The game of morra |
| 2 | Latin | murra | A stone of which precious vessels were made;... |
| 3 | Greek | Μύρρᾱ | — |
via Latin mōra
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | mōra | delay, or any duration of time |
| 2 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)mer- | to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to... |
Words derived from “mora”