mucro

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mucro. From 17th century.

Noun

mucro (plural mucros or mucrones)

1. (botany, zoology) A pointed end, often sharp, abruptly terminating an organ, such as a projection at the tip of a leaf; the posterior tip of a cuttlebone; or the distal part of the furcula in Collembola.

Derived terms

• mucronate

Anagrams

• Corum, Muroc, mucor

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps individualizing n-stem derivative of a lost adjective *mūkro- (“pointed, sharp”), from a Proto-Italic *meuk-ro-, *mouk-ro-, derivative of a Proto-Indo-European root *h₂mewḱ-, also seen in Ancient Greek ἀμύσσω (amússō, “I tear, rip”), ἀμυκάλαι (amukálai, “arrowtips”), and perhaps also in Lithuanian mùšti (“strike”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.kroː/, [ˈmuːkroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.kro/, [ˈmuːkro]

Noun

mūcrō m (genitive mūcrōnis); third declension

1. A sharp point, especially the point of a sword.
2. (figuratively) A sword.
3. A sharp edge.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mūcrō	mūcrōnēs
Genitive	mūcrōnis	mūcrōnum
Dative	mūcrōnī	mūcrōnibus
Accusative	mūcrōnem	mūcrōnēs
Ablative	mūcrōne	mūcrōnibus
Vocative	mūcrō	mūcrōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: mugró
• English: mucro
• Portuguese: mucrão

References

• “mucro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mucro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mucro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mucro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mucro”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers