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Borrowed from French morale.

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.

the capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others

From moralo +‎ -e.

morale

  1. morally

morale f (plural morales)

  1. ethics, morality

morale

  1. feminine singular of moral

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

morale (plural morali)

  1. moral

morale f (plural morali)

  1. morals
  2. moral philosophy

morale m (plural morali)

  1. morale

mōrāle

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of mōrālis

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

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