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mure

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

English

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Etymology

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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”).

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Noun

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mure (plural mures)

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

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mure (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

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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.

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  • 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.

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Danish

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Etymology 1

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

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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
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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 —
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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mure c

  1. indefinite plural of mur

Estonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *murëh.

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mure (genitive mure, partitive muret)

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

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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

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Further reading

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  • “mure”, in [EKSS] 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

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mure

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

Adjective

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mure

  1. Alternative spelling of mûre

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Galician

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Verb

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mure

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

Interlingua

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Noun

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mure (plural mures)

  1. mouse
    Synonym: mus

Kari'na

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Etymology

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

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mure (possessed murery)

  1. bench, stool

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  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎[1], 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[2], Paris, 1956, page 299

Latin

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mūre

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

Middle English

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Etymology

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

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Adjective

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mure

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

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Etymology

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    From Old High German mūra, from Proto-West Germanic *mūrā, borrowed from Latin mūrus, from Proto-Italic *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey-.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈmurə/

    Noun

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    mūre f

    1. wall

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    Declension of mūre (feminine, class 1 strong)
    singular plural
    indef. def. noun def. noun
    nominative ein diu mūre die mūre
    genitive einer dër mūre dër mūren
    dative einer dër mūre dën mūren
    accusative eine die mūre die mūre
    Declension of mūre (feminine, weak)
    singular plural
    indef. def. noun def. noun
    nominative ein diu mūre die mūren
    genitive einer dër mūren dër mūren
    dative einer dër mūren dën mūren
    accusative eine die mūren die mūren

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    • Alemannic German: Muur
    • Central Franconian: Mouer (Moselle)
    • German: Mauer
    • Rhine Franconian: Mauer, Muur
      • Frankfurterisch: [mauæ̆]
    • Yiddish: מויער (moyer)
    • → Polish: mur (see there for further descendants)

    References

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    • Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “MÛRE”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
    • "mūre" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

    Middle Low German

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    Alternative forms

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    Etymology

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    From Old Saxon mūra, from Latin mūrus.

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    • IPA(key): /muːrə/, /myːrə/

    Noun

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    mûre or mü̂re f

    1. wall

    Usage notes

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    The form with /yː/ and the form with /uː/ existed next to each other.

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    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.

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    Norwegian Bokmål

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    Etymology 1

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    From Old Norse múra.

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

    1. to mason

    Etymology 2

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

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    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

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    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    Etymology 1

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    From Old Norse múra.

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

    1. to mason
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    Etymology 2

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

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

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

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    Portuguese

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    • Hyphenation: mu‧re

    Etymology 1

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

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    Noun

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    mure m (plural mures)

    1. (archaic, dialectal) mouse
      Synonym: rato
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    Etymology 2

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    Verb

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    mure

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

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    Verb

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    mure

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