muro

murô

1. finger; toe

Latin mūrus, reinforced by many descendants.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuro/
• Hyphenation: mu‧ro
• Rhymes: -uro
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muro (accusative singular muron, plural muroj, accusative plural murojn)

1. wall
   • 1906, L. L. Zamenhof, speech to the 2nd Esperanto Congress in Geneva:

     Terure altaj kaj dikaj estas ankoraŭ la interpopolaj muroj.

     The walls between the people of the world are still dreadfully tall and wide.

• fajromuro
• murhorloĝo

Originally a variant of muru.

muro

1. (usually in the plural) breakfast cereal

Rarely used in singular, as a single grain of breakfast cereal is rarely mentioned.

• romu

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese muro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin mūrus, from Old Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to strengthen”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾo̝/

muro m (plural muros)

1. wall (stone structure built for defense)

   Synonym: muralla

2. wall (stone structure built for delimitation)

   Synonyms: valado, valo

3. wall (division of a structure)

   Synonym: parede

4. (regional) hill-fort
5. breakwater

• muralla
• murar

• “muro” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “muro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “muro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “muro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “muro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “muro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Esperanto muro, ultimately from Latin mūrus.

muro (plural muri)

1. wall

• enmurigar (“to immure”)

From Latin mūrus, from Old Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to strengthen”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ro/, [ˈmuː.r̺o]

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• Hyphenation: mù‧ro
• Rhymes: -uro

muro m (plural muri m, alternative plural mura f)

1. wall

   Synonym: parete

The feminine plural mura denotes the walls of a town, castle or similar, viewed collectively:

Le mura di Roma hanno dodici porte. ― Rome's walls have twelve gates.

Otherwise the masculine plural muri is used:

I muri hanno orecchie. ― The walls have ears.

muro

1. first-person singular present indicative of murare

• umor

muro

1. Rōmaji transcription of むろ

mūrō

1. dative singular of mūrus
2. ablative singular of mūrus

• muro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Old Portuguese muro, from Latin murus, from Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fix, to build fortifications or fences, strengthen”).

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ɾu/
• Hyphenation: mu‧ro

muro m (plural muros)

1. wall

• parede f

• muralha f

muro

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of murar

muro m (feminine muri, plural mure)

1. (possessive) my

   muro jilo - my heart

   muro shavo - my son

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾo/

From Old Spanish muro, from Latin mūrus, from Old Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to strengthen”). Cognate with German Mauer (“wall”) and obsolete English mure. Compare English mural.

muro m (plural muros)

1. wall

   El muro del silencio. ― The wall of silence.

• pared
• See Thesaurus:pared.

• murar

• mural
• muralla

See the etymology of the main entry.

muro

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of murar.

• “muro” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

muro

1. nose

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.