mure
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
mure (plural mures)
- (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
- (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh
Adjective edit
mure (not comparable)
Verb edit
mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)
- (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
- (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 edit
- 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 edit
Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse múra, derived from the noun. Compare German mauern.
Verb edit
mure (imperative mur, infinitive at mure, present tense murer, past tense murede, perfect tense er/har muret)
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
mure c
- indefinite plural of mur
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *murëh.
Noun edit
mure (genitive mure, partitive muret)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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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 edit
Further reading edit
- “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)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mure
- inflection of murer:
Adjective edit
mure
- Alternative spelling of mûre
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Verb edit
mure
- inflection of murar:
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
mure (plural mures)
Kari'na edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *mɨjere; compare Trió mïjere, Wayana mujele, Pemon murei.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mure (possessed murery)
References edit
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 321
- Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “mure”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 307; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes[2], Paris, 1956, page 299
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.re/, [ˈmuːrɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.re/, [ˈmuːre]
Noun edit
mūre
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French meur, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mature.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
mure
Related terms edit
References edit
- “mūre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle Low German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Saxon mūra, from Latin mūrus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mûre or mü̂re f
Usage notes edit
The form with /yː/ and the form with /uː/ existed next to each other.
Declension edit
Singular | Plural | |
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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 | |
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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 edit
References edit
- "mûre" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
mure (present tense murer, past tense mura or murte, supine and past participle mura or murt)
- to mason
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse mura, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ.
Noun edit
mure f or m (definite singular mura or muren, indefinite plural murer, definite plural murene)
- (botany) any plant of the potentilla family
- Synonym: potentilla
References edit
- “mure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Alternative forms edit
- mura (a-infinitive)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mure (present tense murar, past tense mura, past participle mura, passive infinitive murast, present participle murande, imperative mure/mur)
- to mason
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse mura, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ. Akin to German Möhre (“carrot”).
Noun edit
mure f (definite singular mura, indefinite plural murer, definite plural murene)
- (botany) any plant of the potentilla family
- Synonym: potentilla
References edit
- “mure” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: mu‧re
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese mur, from Latin mūrem, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. Cognate with Spanish mur and Romansh mieur.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
mure m (plural mures)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
mure
- inflection of murar:
Spanish edit
Verb edit
mure
- inflection of murar: