morsure

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French morsure, from Latin mordere, morsum (“to bite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔː(ɹ)sjʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈmɔː(ɹ)ʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

morsure (countable and uncountable, plural morsures)

1. The act of biting.
   • 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit:

     all invention is formed by the morsure of two or more of these animals, upon certain capillary nerves, which proceed from thence, whereof three branches spread into the tongue, and two into the right hand.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “morsure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Rumores

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ.syʁ/

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Noun

morsure f (plural morsures)

1. bite (act of biting)
2. bite (the wound as a result of being bitten)

Related terms

• mordre

Further reading

• “morsure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Participle

morsūre

1. vocative masculine singular of morsūrus