different between murrine vs murine

English

Etymology

(glass mosaic cane): Italian

Noun

murrine (plural murrines)

1. a glass mosaic cane made by fusing together layers of coloured glass

Adjective

murrine (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of murrhine (“made of murra”)

Anagrams

• murrein

Latin

Adjective

murrine

1. vocative masculine singular of murrinus

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mj???a?n/

Etymology

From Latin stem, mur-, of mus (“mouse”) +? -ine.

Adjective

murine (comparative more murine, superlative most murine)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
2. More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.
   • 1977, Richard Peto^[1]

Translations

Hypernyms

• rodential

Noun

murine (plural murines)

1. (zoology) Any murine mammal.

Anagrams

• murein

Latin

Adjective

m?r?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of m?r?nus

Old French

Etymology

Adjective murin, morin, from the verb morir (“to die”).

Noun

murine f (oblique plural murines, nominative singular murine, nominative plural murines)

1. plague; pestilence