mure
English
Etymology
From Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from 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
Verb
mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)
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.
Danish
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *mureh.
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This noun needs an inflection-table template.
French
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Verb
mure
Ingrian
Latin
Middle Low German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muːrə/, /myːrə/
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 | |
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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. |
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈmu.ɾɨ/
- Hyphenation: mu‧re
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese mur, from Latin mūrem, accusative singular of mus, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. Cognate with Spanish mur and Romansh mieur.
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