mure

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”).

• IPA^(key): /mjʊə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)

mure (plural mures)

1. (obsolete) wall
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 2870:

     Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
     Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in

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

mure (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

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.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Therewith he mured up his mouth along,
     And therein shut up his blasphemous tong

   • a. 1765, Bible, Joshua 10 (heading)

     The five kings are mured in a cave.

• 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.

• Reum, Meru

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuːrə/, [ˈmuːɐ]
• Homophone: murer

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

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

• murer
• muret
• mure inde

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mure c

1. indefinite plural of mur

From Proto-Finnic *murëh.

mure (genitive mure, partitive muret)

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

• muretsema

• “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)

• IPA^(key): /myʁ/

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• Homophones: mur, mûr, murs, mûrs, mûre, mures, mûres, murent

mure

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

mure

1. alternative spelling of mûre

• muer

mure

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

mure (plural mures)

1. mouse

   Synonym: mus

mure

1. Rōmaji transcription of むれ

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

• IPA^(key): [muːɺ̢e]

mure (possessed murery)

1. bench, stool

• 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmuː.rɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmuː.re]

mūre

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

• meur, mewre, moyre

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

• IPA^(key): /miu̯r/

mure

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

• demure

• “mūre, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• miure, mūr, miur

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

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈmuːrə/

mūre f

1. wall

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

• 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)

• mur, mür

From Old Saxon mūra, from Latin mūrus.

• IPA^(key): /muːrə/, /myːrə/

mûre or mü̂re f

1. wall

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

• Dutch Low Saxon: mure
• → Estonian: müür

• "mûre" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

From Old Norse múra.

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

1. to mason

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

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

• “mure” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse múra.

• mura (a-infinitive)

• IPA^(key): /²mʉː.rə/

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

1. to mason

• murar

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

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

1. (botany) any plant of the potentilla family

   Synonym: potentilla

• “mure” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Hyphenation: mu‧re

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

• muro

mure m (plural mures)

1. (archaic, dialectal) mouse

   Synonym: rato

• murar

• morcego
• murganho
• musaranho
• músculo

mure

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

mure

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