mure

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See also: Mure, muré, murè, mûre, műre, můře, and La Mure

English

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /mjʊə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

Noun

mure (plural mures)

  1. (obsolete) wall
  2. (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

Adjective

mure (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

Verb

mure (third-person singular simple present mures, present participle muring, simple past and past participle mured)

  1. (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
  2. (archaic) To enclose or imprison within walls.

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.

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra, derived from the noun. Compare German mauern.

Verb

mure (imperative mur, infinitive at mure, present tense murer, past tense murede, perfect tense er/har muret)

  1. to build a wall, to lay bricks
Conjugation
Inflection of mure
present past
simple murer murede
perfect har muret havde muret
passive mures muredes
participle murende muret
imperative mur —
infinitive mure —
auxiliary verb have —
gerund muren —
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mure c

  1. indefinite plural of mur

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *murëh.

Noun

mure (genitive mure, partitive muret)

  1. sorrow, woe, grief
  2. care, concern
  3. anxiety, distress

Declension

Declension of mure (type pere)
singular plural
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

Further reading

  • “mure”, in 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

Pronunciation

Verb

mure

  1. inflection of murer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Adjective

mure

  1. Alternative spelling of mûre

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

mure

  1. inflection of murar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Noun

mure (plural mures)

  1. mouse
    Synonym: mus

Kari'na

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mɨjere; compare Trió mïjere, Wayana mujele, Pemon murei.

Pronunciation

Noun

mure (possessed murery)

  1. bench, stool

References

  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, 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, Paris, 1956, page 299

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

mūre

  1. ablative singular of mūs
  2. vocative singular of mūrus

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French meur, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of mature.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mure

  1. grave, serious, modest
  2. (rare) mature, ripe

Related terms

References

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Saxon mūra, from Latin mūrus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːrə/, /myːrə/

Noun

mûre or mü̂re f

  1. wall

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
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

  • Dutch Low Saxon: mure
  • → Estonian: müür

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra.

Verb

mure (present tense murer, past tense mura or murte, supine and past participle mura or murt)

  1. to mason

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mura, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ.

Noun

mure f or m (definite singular mura or muren, indefinite plural murer, definite plural murene)

  1. (botany) any plant of the potentilla family
    Synonym: potentilla

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse múra.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

mure (present tense murar, past tense mura, past participle mura, passive infinitive murast, present participle murande, imperative mure/mur)

  1. to mason
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse mura, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ. Akin to German Möhre (“carrot”).

Noun

mure f (definite singular mura, indefinite plural murer, definite plural murene)

  1. (botany) any plant of the potentilla family
    Synonym: potentilla

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: mu‧re

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese mur, from Latin mūrem, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s. Cognate with Spanish mur and Romansh mieur.

Alternative forms

Noun

mure m (plural mures)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) mouse
    Synonym: rato
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

mure

  1. inflection of murar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

mure

  1. inflection of murar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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