different between muce vs mue

English

Noun

muce (plural muces)

1. Alternative form of muse (hole through which an animal passes)

Anagrams

• cume

Latin

Noun

m?ce

1. vocative singular of m?cus

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mut?s?/, [?mut?s?]

Noun

muce

1. inflection of muka:
   1. dative/locative singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Old French

Noun

muce f (oblique plural muces, nominative singular muce, nominative plural muces)

1. hidden store; cache

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (muce)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mju?/
• Homophones: mew, mu

Verb

mue (third-person singular simple present mues, present participle muing, simple past and past participle mued)

1. (obsolete) To mew; to moult.
   • 1620, Francis Quarles, A Feast for Wormes

     Their nakednesse with sackcloth let them hide,
     And mue the vest'ments of their silken pride

Anagrams

• EMU, MEU, Ume, emu, meu, ume

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my/
• Homophones: mu, mû

Etymology 1

Latin m?t?, see the verb muer

Noun

mue f (plural mues)

1. moulting (UK) / molting (US) (of bird, mammal)
2. metamorphosis (of insect)
3. sloughing of skin (of reptile)
4. casting (of stag)
5. breaking of voice
6. (literary) transformation

Verb

mue

1. first-person singular present indicative of muer
2. third-person singular present indicative of muer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of muer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of muer
5. second-person singular imperative of muer

Etymology 2

See mouvoir

Verb

mue

1. feminine singular of the past participle of mouvoir

Anagrams

• ému

Further reading

• “mue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman mue.

Noun

mue

1. Alternative form of mewe (“cage”)

Etymology 2

From Old French muer.

Verb

mue

1. Alternative form of mewen (“to moult”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse múgi m.

Noun

mue f (definite singular mua, indefinite plural muer, definite plural muene)

1. Alternative form of muge f

Anagrams

• emu