mure

See also: Mure, muré, murè, mûre, můře, and La Mure

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English muren, from Middle French murer, from Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from Late Latin mūrō, mūrāre, from Latin mūrus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjʊə(ɹ)/

• Audio (southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Noun

mure (plural mures)

1. (obsolete) wall
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 2870:

     Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
     Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in

2. (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

Adjective

mure (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

Verb

mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)

1. (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
2. (archaic) To enclose or imprison within walls.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Therewith he mured up his mouth along ,
     And therein shut up his blasphemous tong

   • a. 1765, Bible, Joshua 10 (heading)

     The five kings are mured in a cave.

References

• Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.

Anagrams

• Meru

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuːrə/, [ˈmuːɐ]
• Homophone: murer

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra, derived from the noun. Compare German mauern.

Verb

mure (imperative mur, infinitive at mure, present tense murer, past tense murede, perfect tense er/har muret)

1. to build a wall, to lay bricks

Inflection

Inflection of mure

	present	past
simple	murer	murede
perfect	har muret	havde muret
passive	mures	muredes
participle	murende	muret
imperative	mur	—
infinitive	mure	—
auxiliary verb	have	—
gerund	muren	—

Derived terms

• murer
• muret
• mure inde

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mure c

1. indefinite plural of mur

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Estonian

Etymology

From .

Noun

mure (genitive mure, partitive muret)

1. sorrow, woe, grief
2. care, concern
3. anxiety, distress

Declension

Declension of mure (type pere)

	singular	plural
nominative	mure	mured
genitive	mure	murede
partitive	muret	muresid
illative	muresse	muredesse
inessive	mures	muredes
elative	murest	muredest
allative	murele	muredele
adessive	murel	muredel
ablative	murelt	muredelt
translative	mureks	muredeks
terminative	mureni	muredeni
essive	murena	muredena
abessive	mureta	muredeta
comitative	murega	muredega

Derived terms

• muretsema

Further reading

• “mure”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “mure”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• mure in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myʁ/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: mur, mûr, murs, mûrs, mûre, mures, mûres, murent

Verb

mure

1. inflection of murer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Adjective

mure

1. Alternative spelling of mûre

Anagrams

• muer

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Ingrian

Noun

mure

1. grief

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Interlingua

Noun

mure (plural mures)

1. mouse

   Synonym: mus

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) mūre

1. ablative singular of mūs
2. vocative singular of mūrus

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• meur, mewre, moyre

Etymology

From Old French meur, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mature.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miu̯r/

Adjective

mure

1. grave, serious, modest
2. (rare) mature, ripe

Related terms

• demure

References

• “mūre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Middle Low German

Alternative forms

• mur, mür

Etymology

From Old Saxon mūra, from Latin mūrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muːrə/, /myːrə/

Noun

mûre or mü̂re f

1. wall

Usage notes

The form with /yː/ and the form with /uː/ existed next to each other.

Declension

Declension of mure

	Singular	Plural
nominative	mûre	mûren
accusative	mûren	mûren
dative	mûren	mûren
genitive	mûren	mûren
Middle Low German nouns often switch to other declension classes, and new declension patterns are created throughout the period. As such, this table need not necessarily portray the only existing pattern but might merely be an exemplary of an original or common form.

Declension of mure

	Singular	Plural
nominative	mü̂re	mü̂ren
accusative	mü̂ren	mü̂ren
dative	mü̂ren	mü̂ren
genitive	mü̂ren	mü̂ren
Middle Low German nouns often switch to other declension classes, and new declension patterns are created throughout the period. As such, this table need not necessarily portray the only existing pattern but might merely be an exemplary of an original or common form.

Descendants

• Dutch Low Saxon: mure
• → Estonian: müür

References

• "mûre" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra.

Verb

mure (present tense murer, past tense mura or murte, supine and past participle mura or murt)

1. to mason

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mura, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ.

Noun

mure f or m (definite singular mura or muren, indefinite plural murer, definite plural murene)

1. (botany) any plant of the potentilla family

   Synonym: potentilla

References

• “mure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra.

Alternative forms

• mura (a-infinitive)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mʉː.rə/

Verb

mure (present tense murar, past tense mura, past participle mura, passive infinitive murast, present participle murande, imperative mure/mur)

1. to mason

Derived terms

• murar

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mura, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ. Akin to German Möhre (“carrot”).

Noun

mure f (definite singular mura, indefinite plural murer, definite plural murene)

1. (botany) any plant of the potentilla family

   Synonym: potentilla

References

• “mure” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ɾɨ/
• Hyphenation: mu‧re

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mur, from Latin mūrem, accusative singular of mus, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. Cognate with Spanish mur and Romansh mieur.

Alternative forms

• muro

Noun

mure m (plural mures)

1. (archaic, dialectal) mouse

   Synonym: rato

Derived terms

• murar

Related terms

• morcego
• murganho
• musaranho
• músculo

Etymology 2

Verb

mure

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Sardinian

Alternative forms

• muri (Campidanese)

Etymology

From Latin mūrem, accusative of mūs. Compare Italian mure, Romansch mieur, Portuguese mure/muro, Spanish mur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmure/

Noun

mure m (plural mures)

1. mouse

   Synonym: sorighe

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Spanish

Verb

mure

1. inflection of murar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative