different between guide vs moral

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

c. 1325–75. From Middle English guide, from the Old French guide, from Old Occitan guida, from guidar, from Frankish *w?tan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *w?tan? (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Cognate with Old English w?tan (“to see, take heed to, watch after, guard, keep”). Related also to English wit.

Noun

guide (plural guides)

1. Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation.

   The guide led us around the museum and explained the exhibits.

   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms xlviii. 14

     He will be our guide, even unto death.

2. A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
3. A sign that guides people; guidepost.
4. Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
5. A device that guides part of a machine, or guides motion or action.
   1. A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
   2. A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
   3. (printing, dated) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy being set.
6. (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
7. (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English guiden, from Old French guider, from Old Occitan guidar, from Frankish *w?tan (“to show the way, lead”), from Proto-Germanic *w?tan? (“to see, know; go, depart”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”).

Verb

guide (third-person singular simple present guides, present participle guiding, simple past and past participle guided)

1. to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
2. to steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
3. to exert control or influence over someone or something.
4. to supervise the education or training of someone.
5. (intransitive) to act as a guide.

Derived terms

• guidee

Translations

References

• guide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “guide”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “guide” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "guide" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• digue, iudge

French

Etymology

From Old French guide, borrowed from Old Occitan guida, from the verb guidar, ultimately of Germanic origin, possibly through Medieval Latin; cf. Frankish *w?tan. Supplanted the older Old French guier, of the same origin. Compare Italian guida, Spanish guía. See guider for more information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?id/
• Homophone: guides
• Rhymes: -id

Noun

guide m (plural guides)

1. guide person
2. guidebook, or set itinerary.

Derived terms

• chien guide d'aveugle
• mener la vie à grandes guides

Related terms

• guider

Descendants

• ? Danish: guide
• ? Romanian: ghid
• ? Russian: ??? (gid)

References

• "guide" in the WordReference Dictionnaire Français-Anglais, WordReference.com LLC, 2006.

Further reading

• “guide” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• digue

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Noun

guide f

1. plural of guida

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guider, definite plural guidene)

1. a guide (person who guides tourists)
2. a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaid

Verb

guide (imperative guid, present tense guider, passive guides, simple past and past participle guida or guidet, present participle guidende)

1. to guide (usually tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaide

References

• “guide” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “guide_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “guide_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English guide.

Noun

guide m (definite singular guiden, indefinite plural guidar, definite plural guidane)

1. a guide (person who guides tourists)
2. a guide (handbook, e.g. for tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaid

Verb

guide (present tense guidar, past tense guida, past participle guida, passive infinitive guidast, present participle guidande, imperative guid)

1. to guide (usually tourists)

Alternative forms

• gaide, guida

References

• “guide” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Noun

guide m or f

1. a guide (person who guides)

Descendants

• French: guide
  • ? Danish: guide
  • ? Romanian: ghid
  • ? Russian: ??? (gid)
• Norman: dgide (Jersey)
• ? Middle English: giden, gide
  • Scots: guide
  • English: guide
    • ? Korean: ??? (gaideu)
    • ? Japanese: ??? (gaido)
    • ? Norwegian: guide
    • ? Swedish: guide

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *g?ody?, from Proto-Indo-European *g??od?-yeh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??uð?e]

Noun

guide f (genitive guide, nominative plural guidi)

1. verbal noun of guidid
2. prayer
   • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, published in Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (1905, Harrison & Sons), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes, Epilogue, line 421

Declension

Descendants

• Irish: guí
• Manx: gwee (“curse, imprecation”)
• Scottish Gaelic: guidhe

Mutation

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

guide c

1. guide (person who guides)

   Synonym: vägledare

2. (computing) wizard (program or script used to simplify complex operations)

   Synonym: assistent

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English moral, from Old French moral, from Latin m?r?lis (“relating to manners or morals”)(first used by Cicero, to translate Ancient Greek ?????? (?thikós, “moral”)), from mos (“manner, custom”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m???l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m???l/
• (NYC) IPA^(key): /?m???l/
• Rhymes: -?r?l (Received Pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -????l (General American)

Adjective

moral (comparative more moral, superlative most moral)

1. Of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behaviour, especially for teaching right behaviour.

   • She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.

2. Conforming to a standard of right behaviour; sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment.

3. Capable of right and wrong action.

4. Probable but not proved.

5. Positively affecting the mind, confidence, or will.

Synonyms

• (conforming to a standard of right behaviour): ethical, incorruptible, noble, righteous, virtuous
• (probable but not proved): virtual

Antonyms

• immoral, unethical, corrupt, unscrupulous, amoral, non-moral, unmoral

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

moral (plural morals)

1. (of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.

   The moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf is that if you repeatedly lie, people won't believe you when you tell the truth.

   • 1841, Thomas Macaulay, Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (printed in Edinburgh Review, January 1841)

     We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.

2. (chiefly in the plural) Moral practices or teachings: modes of conduct.

3. (obsolete) A morality play.
4. (slang, dated) A moral certainty.
5. (slang, dated) An exact counterpart.

Synonyms

• (moral practices or teachings): ethics, mores

Hyponyms

• golden rule

Translations

Verb

moral (third-person singular simple present morals, present participle moraling or moralling, simple past and past participle moraled or moralled)

1. (intransitive) To moralize.

Further reading

• moral in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• moral in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• moral at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Marlo, molar, romal

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin m?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mo??al/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /mu??al/

Adjective

moral (masculine and feminine plural morals)

1. moral (relating to right and wrong)
2. moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)

   Antonyms: immoral, amoral

Derived terms

• amoral
• immoral
• moralisme
• moralment

Related terms

• moralitat

Noun

moral f (plural morals)

1. morals
2. morale

Further reading

• “moral” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “moral” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “moral” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “moral” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

Loan from French morale via German Moral

Noun

moral c

1. morale, motivation (capacity to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
2. moral, moral practices, conduct

   streng, victoriansk moral

   strict, Victorian moral

3. a moral, a lesson (of a narrative)

   Synonym: morale

Derived terms

• moralisere
• moralsk
• moralisme
• moralist
• umoral
• seksualmoral

See also

• etik
• karakter
• sæd
• sædelighed
• opførsel

French

Etymology

From Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin moralis.

Pronunciation

Noun

moral m (plural moraux)

1. morale, optimism

Adjective

moral (feminine singular morale, masculine plural moraux, feminine plural morales)

1. moral

Derived terms

• amoral
• avoir le moral en berne
• avoir le moral à zéro
• avoir le moral dans les chaussettes
• immoral
• morale
• moralisme
• moraliste
• moralité
• personne morale
• remonter le moral

Related terms

• mœurs

Further reading

• “moral” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin m?r?lis.

Adjective

moral m or f (plural morais)

1. moral (relating to right and wrong)
2. moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)

   Antonyms: inmoral, amoral

Related terms

• moralidade

Noun

moral f (plural morais)

1. moral (moral practices or teachings)
2. morale

Further reading

• “moral” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Ladin

Adjective

moral m (feminine singular morala, masculine plural morai, feminine plural morales)

1. moral

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin moralis.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mo?ral
• Homophone: mural (Portugal)
• Rhymes: -al, -aw

Adjective

moral m or f (plural morais, comparable)

1. moral

Noun 1

moral f (plural morais)

1. a set of moral values, (collectively) principles, morality;
2. moral philosophy;
3. (Brazil, informal) authority, capacity or right to impose on or influence another;
   1. balls (boldness), attitude of authority;
   2. right to have a say on a matter, to judge someone etc., moral high ground;

Related terms

• moralidade

Noun 2

moral m (plural morais)

1. morale

Further reading

• “moral” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?ra?l/
• Hyphenation: mo?ral

Noun

mòr?l m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (uncountable) moral

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo??al/, [mo??al]
• Rhymes: -al

Etymology 1

From Latin m?r?lis.

Adjective

moral (plural morales)

1. moral (relating to right and wrong)
2. moral (conforming to a standard of right behaviour)

   Antonyms: inmoral, amoral

Derived terms

Related terms

• moralidad

Noun

moral f (plural morales)

1. morals, standard (modes of conduct)
2. morale (the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)

Hyponyms

• doble moral

Derived terms

See also

• tener más moral que el Alcoyano (Spain, informal)

Etymology 2

mora +? -al

Noun

moral m (plural morales)

1. mulberry tree

Further reading

• “moral” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

Loan from French morale via German Moral, used in Swedish in Then Swänska Argus (1730s).

Pronunciation

Noun

moral c

1. morale, character
2. moral, moral practices, conduct

   snäv, viktoriansk moral

   strict, Victorian moral

3. a moral, a lesson (of a narrative)

Declension

Related terms

• moralisera
• moralisk
• moralism
• moralist
• moralpanik
• moraltant
• omoral
• sexualmoral

See also

• etik
• karaktär
• sed
• sedelärande
• sedlighet
• uppförande

References

• moral in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• moral in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• lamor