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)
- (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
- (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh
Adjective
mure (not comparable)
Verb
mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)
- (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
- (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
Danish
Noun
mure c
Verb
mure (imperative mur, infinitive at mure, present tense murer, past tense murede, perfect tense er/har muret)
- to build
- to do bricklaying
Derived terms
Estonian
Etymology
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Noun
mure (genitive mure, partitive muret)
Declension
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French
Pronunciation
Verb
mure
- first-person singular present indicative of murer
- third-person singular present indicative of murer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of murer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of murer
- second-person singular imperative of murer
Anagrams
Ingrian
Noun
mure
Interlingua
Noun
mure (plural mures)
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) mūre
Middle Low German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Saxon mūra, from Latin mūrus.
Pronunciation
Noun
mûre or mü̂re f
Usage notes
The form with /yː/ and the form with /uː/ existed next to each other.
Declension
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. |
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
Novial
Noun
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 303: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Portugal" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. 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
Noun
mure m (plural s)
Synonyms
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
Verb
mure
Spanish
Verb
mure
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