murus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin mūrus (“wall”). === Pronunciation === === Noun === murus (plural muri) A wall, in the context of Ancient Rome. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (palynology) A pattern-forming ridge on the surface of a pollen grain. ==== Synonyms ==== vallum ==== Derived terms ==== murate muroid == Estonian == === Noun === murus 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 === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmuː.rʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmuː.rus] === Noun === mūrus m (genitive mūrī); second declension wall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== ==== See also ==== pariēs === References === === Further reading === “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, 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “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