murine

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English

Etymology

From Latin stem, mur-, of mus (“mouse”) + -ine.

Pronunciation

Adjective

murine (comparative more murine, superlative most murine)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
    • 2023, Kate Atkinson, “Existential Marginalisation”, in Normal Rules Don’t Apply, Penguin (2024), page 133:
      They had watched, paralysed, as, squeaking with terror, her small murine body was ripped to pieces, Tilly yipping gleefully with excitement all the while.
    Coordinate terms: mouselike, mousy
  2. More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.
    • 1977, Richard Peto(WP)
      Are our stem cells really, then, a billion or a trillion times more "cancerproof" than murine stem cells?
    • 2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:
      One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.

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Translations

Noun

murine (plural murines)

  1. (zoology) Any murine mammal.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muˈri.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ine
  • Hyphenation: mu‧rì‧ne

Adjective

murine

  1. feminine plural of murino

Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

mūrīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of mūrīnus

Old French

Etymology

Adjective murin, morin, from the verb morir (“to die”).

Noun

murine oblique singular, f (oblique plural murines, nominative singular murine, nominative plural murines)

  1. plague; pestilence

Descendants

  • Middle French: morine
  • Norman: mouoréne
  • Poitevin-Saintongeais: mourine
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