mure

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

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin murus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).

Noun

mure (plural mures)

1. (obsolete) wall

   No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs.

   Th' incessant care and labour of his mind

   Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in

   — Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, [IV, 4], line 2870

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. (obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

   The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).

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

Noun

mure c

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of mur

Verb

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

1. to build
2. to do bricklaying

Derived terms

• murer
• muret
• mure inde

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Estonian

Etymology

From .

Noun

mure (genitive mure, partitive muret)

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

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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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. first-person singular present indicative of murer
2. third-person singular present indicative of murer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of murer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of murer
5. second-person singular imperative of murer

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. vocative singular of mūrus

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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

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Novial

Noun

1. wall

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese mur, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mūrem, accusative singular of mus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. Cognate with Spanish mur and Romansh mieur.

Alternative forms

• muro

Noun

mure m (plural s)

1. (archaic, dialectal) mouse

Synonyms

• rato

Derived terms

• murar

Related terms

• morcego
• murganho
• musaranho
• músculo

Verb

mure

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Verb

mure

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of murar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of murar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of murar.