muro

• IPA^(key): /muˈɾoʔ/ [muˈɾoʔ]

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• Hyphenation: mu‧ro

murô (Basahan spelling ᜋᜓᜍᜓ)

1. (Naga, anatomy) finger, toe

   Synonym: guramoy

muro

1. first-person singular present indicative of murar

• Hyphenation: mu‧ro
• IPA^(key): /muˈɾo/ [mʊˈɾ̪o]

muro

1. to glower; to look or stare with anger

muro

1. a glower; an angry glare or stare

• urom

From Italian muro, French mur, both from Latin mūrus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuro/

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• Rhymes: -uro
• Hyphenation: mu‧ro

muro (accusative singular muron, plural muroj, accusative plural murojn)

1. wall
   • 1906, L. L. Zamenhof, speech to the 2nd Esperanto Congress in Geneva:

     Terure altaj kaj dikaj estas ankoraŭ la interpopolaj muroj.

     The walls between the people of the world are still dreadfully tall and wide.

• fajromuro
• murhorloĝo
• murpentraĵo

• vando

mur- +‎ -o. Originally a variant of muru.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuro/, [ˈmuro̞]
• Rhymes: -uro
• Syllabification^(key): mu‧ro
• Hyphenation^(key): mu‧ro

muro

1. (usually in the plural) breakfast cereal
2. (baking, as modifier) short (brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of a large quantity of fat)

   murokakku ― shortcake

• “muro”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• romu

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese muro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin mūrus, from Old Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to strengthen”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾo/ [ˈmu.ɾʊ]
• Rhymes: -uɾo
• Hyphenation: mu‧ro

muro m (plural muros)

1. wall (stone structure built for defense)

   Synonym: muralla

2. wall (stone structure built for delimitation)

   Synonyms: valado, valo

3. wall (division of a structure)

   Synonym: parede

4. (regional) hill-fort
5. breakwater

   Synonyms: crebaondas, quebraondas

• “muro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “muro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “muro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “muro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “muro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “muro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

muro

1. first-person singular present indicative of murar

From Esperanto muro, ultimately from Latin mūrus.

muro (plural muri)

1. wall

• enmurigar (“to immure”)

From Proto-Finnic *muro. Cognates include dialectal Finnish muro and Estonian muru.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmuro/, [ˈmuro̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmuro/, [ˈmuro̞]
• Rhymes: -uro
• Hyphenation: mu‧ro

muro

1. lawn

Declension of muro (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	muro	murot
genitive	muron	murroin, muroloin
partitive	murroa	muroja, muroloja
illative	murroo	murroi, muroloihe
inessive	muros	murois, murolois
elative	murost	muroist, muroloist
allative	murolle	muroille, muroloille
adessive	murol	muroil, muroloil
ablative	murolt	muroilt, muroloilt
translative	muroks	muroiks, muroloiks
essive	muronna, murroon	muroinna, muroloinna, murroin, muroloin
exessive1)	muront	muroint, muroloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

From murtaa (“to break”) +‎ -o.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmuro/, [ˈmuro̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmuro/, [ˈmuro̞]
• Rhymes: -uro
• Hyphenation: mu‧ro

muro

1. synonym of muru (“crumb”)

Declension of muro (type 4/koivu, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	muro	murot
genitive	muron	murroin, muroloin
partitive	murroa	muroja, muroloja
illative	murroo	murroi, muroloihe
inessive	muros	murois, murolois
elative	murost	muroist, muroloist
allative	murolle	muroille, muroloille
adessive	murol	muroil, muroloil
ablative	murolt	muroilt, muroloilt
translative	muroks	muroiks, muroloiks
essive	muronna, murroon	muroinna, muroloinna, murroin, muroloin
exessive1)	muront	muroint, muroloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 320

• IPA^(key): /ˈmu.ro/

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• Rhymes: -uro
• Hyphenation: mù‧ro

From Latin mūrus, from Old Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to strengthen”).

muro m (plural muri m or (collectively, when referring to the walls of a town, castle, etc.) mura f)

1. wall

   Synonym: parete

• The feminine plural mura denotes the walls of a town, castle or similar, viewed collectively:

  Le mura di Roma hanno dodici porte. ― Rome's walls have twelve gates.

• Otherwise the masculine plural muri is used:

  I muri hanno orecchie. ― The walls have ears.

muro

1. first-person singular present indicative of murare

• umor

muro

1. Rōmaji transcription of むろ

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

mūrō

1. dative/ablative singular of mūrus

• “muro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

muro f

1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of muru

• Rhymes: -uɾu
• Hyphenation: mu‧ro

From Old Galician-Portuguese muro, from Latin murus, from Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fix, to build fortifications or fences, strengthen”).

muro m (plural muros)

1. wall (outdoors)

• Portuguese differentiates between external and internal walls. The barrier that surrounds and divides lands is called muro, while the structures that make the outer part of a building and divide its rooms are called parede.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

muro

1. first-person singular present indicative of murar

muro

1. alternative form of miro

   muro jilo

   my heart

   muro shavo

   my son

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɾo/ [ˈmu.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -uɾo
• Syllabification: mu‧ro

Inherited from Old Spanish muro, from Latin mūrus, from Old Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to strengthen”). Cognate with German Mauer (“wall”) and obsolete English mure. Compare English mural.

muro m (plural muros)

1. (physical) wall

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pared

2. (figurative) wall

   El muro del silencio. ― The wall of silence.

3. (Internet) wall (on Facebook)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

muro

1. first-person singular present indicative of murar

• “muro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmuro/, [ˈmuro]
• Rhymes: -uro
• Hyphenation: mu‧ro

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

muro

1. lawn

Declension of muro (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	muro	murod
genitive	muro	murojõ, muroi
partitive	murroa	muroitõ, muroi
illative	murrosõ, murro	muroisõ
inessive	muroz	muroiz
elative	murossõ	muroissõ
allative	murolõ	muroilõ
adessive	murollõ	muroillõ
ablative	muroltõ	muroiltõ
translative	murossi	muroissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “muro”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

muro

1. crumb, piece

Declension of muro (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	muro	murod
genitive	muro	murojõ, muroi
partitive	murroa	muroitõ, muroi
illative	murrosõ, murro	muroisõ
inessive	muroz	muroiz
elative	murossõ	muroissõ
allative	murolõ	muroilõ
adessive	murollõ	muroillõ
ablative	muroltõ	muroiltõ
translative	murossi	muroissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “muro”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

muro

1. nose

• State Library of Queensland, Indigenous Language Wordlists Turubul Body Parts.