different between mured vs murex

English

Verb

mured

1. simple past tense and past participle of mure

Anagrams

• MUDer, demur

Veps

Etymology

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

Adjective

mured

1. crumbly

Inflection

Derived terms

• mureta

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???????????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (múax, “sea mussel”), from ??? (mûs).

Noun

murex (plural murexes or murices)

1. Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
   • 1991, John Montroll, Robert J. Lang, Origami Sea Life, page 56:

     The murexes (family Muricidae) are one of the most beautiful and sought-after families by shell collectors.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• muxer, rumex

French

Etymology

From Latin

Noun

murex m (plural murex)

1. Murex

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rumex

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (múax, “sea mussel”), from ??? (mûs) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mu?.reks/, [?mu???ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mu.reks/, [?mu???ks]

Noun

m?rex m (genitive m?ricis); third declension

1. A shellfish used as a source of the dye Tyrian purple; the purple-fish
2. The purple dye so produced.
3. A sharp murex shell used as a bridle bit.
4. A pointed rock or stone.
5. A caltrop.
6. An iron spike.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• m?ric?tus
• m?riculus
• m?ricul?tus

Descendants

• English: muriciform, muricite, muricoid
• Irish: maorach
• Catalan: múrex
• Italian: murice
• Portuguese: múrice
• Spanish: múrice
• Translingual: Murex

References

• murex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• murex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• murex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• murex in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin