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Moray

//ˈmɒ.ɹeɪ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A historical county in northern Scotland, absorbed into Grampian Region in 1975.
2
A local government district in Grampian Region from 1975 until Grampian Region's abolition in 1996.
3
A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
4
An unincorporated community in Doniphan County, Kansas, United States.

Noun

1
Any of the large cosmopolitan carnivorous eels of the family Muraenidae.
2
family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Portuguese moreia, from Latin murēna (“sea eel, lamprey”), from Ancient Greek σμύραινα (smúraina), from σμύρος (smúros, “sea eel”).

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin Moravia, Morauia, from Scottish Gaelic Moireibh, Moireabh, Moreb, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *mori (“sea”) + *trebā (“settlement”).

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