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See also: Murex
English
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Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]murex (plural murexes or murices)
- Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
- 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 25:
- The bank of crushed murex shell that Professor Bosanquet found here, and again at Palaikastro, in company with a whole mass of Kamáres pottery, shows that the men of Sidon and Tyre were not the first to practise the dying of purple.
- 1991, John Montroll, Robert J. Lang, Origami Sea Life, page 56:
- The murexes (family Muricidae) are one of the most beautiful and sought-after families by shell collectors.
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin.
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Noun
[edit]murex m (plural murex)
Further reading
[edit]- “murex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Perhaps a derivative of mūs (“mouse”), whence mūsculus (“a saltwater mussel”).[1] Alternatively, together with Ancient Greek μύαξ (múax, “sea mussel”) borrowed from a Mediterranean substrate language.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.reks/, [ˈmuːrɛks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.reks/, [ˈmuːreks]
Noun
[edit]mūrex m (genitive mūricis); third declension
- A shellfish used as a source of the dye Tyrian purple; the purple-fish
- Tyrian purple, the purple dye, a purple color, made from the juice of the purple-fish
- A sharp murex shell used as a bridle bit.
- A pointed rock or stone.
- A caltrop.
- An iron spike.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | mūrex | mūricēs |
Genitive | mūricis | mūricum |
Dative | mūricī | mūricibus |
Accusative | mūricem | mūricēs |
Ablative | mūrice | mūricibus |
Vocative | mūrex | mūricēs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: muriciform, muricite, muricoid
- Irish: maorach
- Catalan: múrex
- Italian: murice
- Portuguese: múrice
- Spanish: múrice
- Translingual: Murex
References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “mus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 396
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “murex”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, pages 422–423
Further reading
[edit]- “murex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “murex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “murex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Rich, Anthony (1849) “murex”, in The Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary and Greek Lexicon[2], London: Longmans, page 435
- “murex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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