different between morale vs faith

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French moral.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?????l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /m???æl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

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, they 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.

   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[1]," New York Times (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.

Synonyms

• esprit de corps

Descendants

• ? Welsh: morâl

Translations

Anagrams

• Lamore, Melora, Merola

Esperanto

Etymology

From moralo +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?rale/
• Hyphenation: mo?ra?le
• Rhymes: -ale

Adverb

morale

1. morally

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.?al/

Noun

morale f (plural morales)

1. Ethics, morality

Adjective

morale

1. feminine singular of moral

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

From Latin m?r?lem, form of m?r?lis, derived from m?s (“custom, way; law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?ra.le/
• Hyphenation: mo?rà?le

Adjective

morale (plural morali)

1. moral

Noun

morale f (plural morali)

1. morals
2. moral philosophy

morale m (plural morali)

1. morale

Related terms

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

Anagrams

• malore
• molare
• molerà

Latin

Adjective

m?r?le

1. nominative neuter singular of m?r?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of m?r?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of m?r?lis

References

• morale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Polish

Etymology

From English morale, from French moral, from Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin m?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ra.l?/

Noun

morale n (indeclinable)

1. morale (capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
2. morals

Noun

morale

1. locative singular of mora?
2. vocative singular of mora?

Further reading

• morale in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• morale in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Alternative forms

• feith, feithe, fayth, faythe, faithe (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English faith, fayth, feith, feyth (also fay, fey, fei ("faith"); > English fay (“faith”)), borrowed from Old French fay, fey, fei, feit, feid (“faith”), from Latin fid?s (faith, belief, trust; whence also English fidelity), from f?d? (“trust, confide in”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?id?-, zero-grade of *b?eyd?- ("to command, persuade, trust"; whence also English bide).Displaced native Old English geleafa (“faith, religion”), which was a cognate of Dutch geloof (“permission”), which is survived in English leave (“permission”).

Old French had [?] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [?]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g. truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterisation of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix, thus making the word equivalent to fay +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe??/
• Rhymes: -e??

Noun

faith (countable and uncountable, plural faiths)

1. A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
2. The process of forming or understanding abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.

3. A religious or spiritual belief system.

   • For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must someday be free. And we believe in ourselves.
     That is the mistake that our enemies have always made. In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. It brought us victory. And it will again.
4. An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.

5. (obsolete) Credibility or truth.
   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece

     the faith of the foregoing […] narrative

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:faith.

Synonyms

• (knowing, without direct observation, based on indirect evidence and experience, that something is true, real, or will happen): belief, confidence, trust, conviction
• (system of religious belief): religion

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• faith at OneLook Dictionary Search
• faith in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• faith in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• faith in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• hatif