murine

English

Etymology

From Latin stem, mur-, of mus (“mouse”) + -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹaɪn

Adjective

murine (comparative more murine, superlative most murine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
2. More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.
   • 1977, Richard Peto^(WP)

     Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?

   • 2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:

     One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.

Hypernyms

• rodential

Translations

characteristic of mice

• Arabic: فَأْرِيّ (faʔriyy)
• Belarusian: мышы́ны (myšýny), шчу́равы (ščúravy) (of rats), пацучы́ны (pacučýny) (of rats), пацуко́ў (pacukóŭ) (of rats)
• Bulgarian: ми́ши (míši)
• Catalan: murí (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鼠科的 (zh) (shǔkē de), 鼠的 (zh) (shǔ de)

• Czech: myší (cs), krysí (cs) (of rats)
• Esperanto: musa (eo)
• Finnish: hiirimäinen (fi) (mouse-like), hiiri- (fi)
• French: murin (fr)
• German: Maus- (de)
• Italian: murino (it)
• Japanese: ネズミの (ja) (nezumi no)
• Korean: 쥐의 (ko) (jwi-ui)
• Latin: mūrīnus
• Macedonian: глувчешки (gluvčeški)
• Polish: mysi (pl), szczurzy (pl) (of rats)
• Portuguese: murino (pt)
• Russian: мыши́ный (ru) (myšínyj), крыси́ный (ru) (krysínyj) (of rats)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ми̏шјӣ

  Roman: mȉšjī (sh)

• Slovak: myší (sk), myšací
• Slovene: mišji
• Spanish: murino, ratonero
• Ukrainian: ми́шачий (mýšačyj), щуря́чий (ščurjáčyj) (of rats), пацюко́вий (pacjukóvyj) (of rats), пацю́чий (pacjúčyj) (of rats)

Noun

murine (plural murines)

1. (zoology) Any murine mammal.

Hypernyms

• murid
• muroid
• rodent

 

Anagrams

• murein, unimer

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muˈri.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: mu‧rì‧ne

Adjective

murine

1. feminine plural of murino

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /muːˈriː.ne/, [muːˈriːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /muˈri.ne/, [muˈriːne]

Adjective

mūrīne

1. vocative masculine singular of mūrīnus

Old French

Etymology

Adjective murin, morin, from the verb morir (“to die”).

Noun

murine oblique singular, f (oblique plural murines, nominative singular murine, nominative plural murines)

1. plague; pestilence

Descendants

• Middle French: morine
• Norman: mouoréne
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: mourine