morsure

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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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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)

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Latin

Participle

morsūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of morsūrus
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