murus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūrus (“wall”).

Noun

murus (plural muri)

  1. A wall. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. (palynology) A pattern-forming ridge on the surface of a pollen grain.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Estonian

Noun

murus

  1. inessive singular of muru

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fix, to build fortifications or fences”), see also Latin mūnīre (“to protect”), Old Norse -mæri (“border-land, boundary”), Old English mære (“landmark, border, boundary”). See also Sanskrit मुर् (múr, “wall”), Sanskrit मुर (mura, “surrounding, encircling, enclosing”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mūrus m (genitive mūrī); second declension

  1. wall (usually of a city, as opposed to paries)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mūrus mūrī
Genitive mūrī mūrōrum
Dative mūrō mūrīs
Accusative mūrum mūrōs
Ablative mūrō mūrīs
Vocative mūre mūrī

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: mur
    • Romanian: mur
    • → Albanian: mur
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • Borrowings:
    • → English: murus (learned)
    • → Old Irish: múr
    • → Welsh: mur
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *mūrā (see there for further descendants)

See also

References

  • “murus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “murus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • murus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • murus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to throw oneself from the ramparts: se deicere de muro
    • to scale the walls by means of ladders: positis scalis muros ascendere
    • the battering-ram strikes the wall: aries murum attingit, percutit
    • to drive the defenders from the walls: murum nudare defensoribus
  • “murus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “murus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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