"murus" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [ˈmuː.rʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈmuː.rus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey- Proto-Indo-European *-ros Proto-Indo-European *moyros Proto-Italic *moiros Latin mūrus 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”). Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:inh|itc-pro:*moiros<id:wall>|id=wall|title=mūrus|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey- Proto-Indo-European *-ros Proto-Indo-European *moyros Proto-Italic *moiros Latin mūrus [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*moiros", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "mūrus", "lang" : "la" }" data-id="wall" data-lang="la" data-title="mūrus" id="Latin:_wall">, {{inh|la|itc-pro|*moiros}} Proto-Italic *moiros, {{der|la|ine-pro|*mey-||to fix, to build fortifications or fences}} Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fix, to build fortifications or fences”), {{cog|la|munio|mūnīre|to protect}} Latin mūnīre (“to protect”), {{cog|non|-mæri||border-land, boundary}} Old Norse -mæri (“border-land, boundary”), {{cog|ang|mære||landmark, border, boundary}} Old English mære (“landmark, border, boundary”), {{cog|sa|मुर्||wall|tr=múr}} Sanskrit मुर् (múr, “wall”), {{cog|sa|मुर||surrounding, encircling, enclosing}} Sanskrit मुर (mura, “surrounding, encircling, enclosing”) Head templates: {{la-noun|mūrus<2>}} mūrus m (genitive mūrī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|mūrus<2>}} Forms: mūrus [canonical, masculine], mūrī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], mūrus [nominative, singular], mūrī [nominative, plural], mūrī [genitive, singular], mūrōrum [genitive, plural], mūrō [dative, singular], mūrīs [dative, plural], mūrum [accusative, singular], mūrōs [accusative, plural], mūrō [ablative, singular], mūrīs [ablative, plural], mūre [singular, vocative], mūrī [plural, vocative]
  1. wall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs) Tags: declension-2
    Sense id: en-murus-la-noun-1X64l41A Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Latin entries with etymology trees, Latin entries with etymon, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin links with redundant wikilinks, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 33 14 31 19 2 Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 87 13 Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymon: 96 4 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of Latin links with redundant wikilinks: 89 11 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 70 30
  2. (dialectal, Reate) mounds made without ditches Tags: declension-2, dialectal
    Sense id: en-murus-la-noun-rxDxL59s
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: mūrālis, mūrātus, Mūrus dācicus, Mūrus gallicus, Mūrus Rōmulī, pōmērium Related terms: pariēs
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          "lang": "unknown",
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          "lang": "Venetan",
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    },
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          "lang_code": "frp",
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          "word": "mur"
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          "word": "mur"
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          "word": "mur"
        },
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            "Guardiol"
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          "lang": "Galician",
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          "word": "muro"
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "word": "muro"
        },
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "lang_code": "es",
          "word": "muro"
        },
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          "lang": "Fala",
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        }
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      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
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          "lang": "Sardinian",
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          "word": "muru"
        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "unknown"
    },
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      "lang_code": "en",
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        "learned borrowing",
        "learned"
      ],
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    },
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        {
          "lang": "Irish",
          "lang_code": "ga",
          "word": "múr"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
          "lang_code": "gd",
          "word": "mùr"
        }
      ],
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      "lang_code": "sga",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "múr"
    },
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        {
          "descendants": [
            {
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                {
                  "lang": "Breton",
                  "lang_code": "br",
                  "word": "mur"
                }
              ],
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              "lang_code": "xbm",
              "word": "mur"
            }
          ],
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          "lang_code": "obt",
          "word": "mur"
        },
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            {
              "lang": "Welsh",
              "lang_code": "cy",
              "word": "mur"
            }
          ],
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          "lang_code": "wlm",
          "word": "mur"
        }
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      "lang": "Proto-Brythonic",
      "lang_code": "cel-bry-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "*mʉr"
    },
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      "lang": "Proto-West Germanic",
      "lang_code": "gmw-pro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "*mūrā"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "lang_code": "sk",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "múr"
    }
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        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *mey-\nProto-Indo-European *-ros\nProto-Indo-European *moyros\nProto-Italic *moiros\nLatin mūrus\n[Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*moiros\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"mūrus\", \"lang\" : \"la\" }\" data-id=\"wall\" data-lang=\"la\" data-title=\"mūrus\" id=\"Latin:_wall\">",
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      "name": "der"
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    },
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      "args": {
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        "3": "",
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      "args": {
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        "3": "",
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      },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "sa",
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        "3": "",
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        "canonical",
        "masculine"
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    },
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        "table-tags"
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      "form": "mūrus",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrus",
          "murus#Latin"
        ]
      ],
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      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mūrī",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrī",
          "muri#Latin"
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      ],
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "mūrī",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrī",
          "muri#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
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      "form": "mūrōrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrōrum",
          "murorum#Latin"
        ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "mūrō",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrō",
          "muro#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mūrīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrīs",
          "muris#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mūrum",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrum",
          "murum#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mūrōs",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrōs",
          "muros#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "mūrō",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrō",
          "muro#Latin"
        ]
      ],
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      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mūrīs",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrīs",
          "muris#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mūre",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūre",
          "mure#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
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      "form": "mūrī",
      "links": [
        [
          "mūrī",
          "muri#Latin"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
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    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pariēs"
    }
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "“We breach the walls and lay open the defenses of the city.”",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.234",
          "text": "Dīvidimus mūrōs et moenia pandimus urbis.",
          "translation": "“We breach the walls and lay open the defenses of the city.”",
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        }
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        "wall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs)"
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          "city",
          "city"
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          "wall",
          "wall"
        ],
        [
          "pariēs",
          "paries#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "Latin dialectal terms",
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "They make mounds with ditches. Some call these walls, as in the region of Reate",
          "ref": "116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Res Rustica 1.14",
          "text": "Aggeres faciunt sine fossa: eos quidam vocant muros, ut in agro Reatino.",
          "translation": "They make mounds with ditches. Some call these walls, as in the region of Reate",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mounds made without ditches"
      ],
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        [
          "mounds",
          "mounds"
        ],
        [
          "without",
          "without"
        ],
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          "ditches",
          "ditches"
        ]
      ],
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        "(dialectal, Reate) mounds made without ditches"
      ],
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        "declension-2",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈmuː.rʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈmuː.rus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "murus"
}

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  "title": "murus",
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  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: dialectal, Reate",
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