mucro

English

Etymology

Latin

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.

Anagrams

• Corum, Muroc, mucor

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Latin

Etymology

Perhaps individualizing n-stem derivative of a lost adjective *mūkro- "pointed, sharp", from a Proto-Italic *meuk-ro- or mouk-ro-, derivative of a Proto-Indo-European root *h₂meuk̂- also seen in Greek ἀμύσσω "I tear, rip" and ἀμυκάλαι "arrowtips" and perhaps also in Lithuanian mùšti "strike".

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.kroː/, [ˈmuːkroː]
• (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[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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