different between prioress vs muller

English

Etymology

prior +? -ess

Noun

prioress (plural prioresses)

1. A nun in charge of a priory (usually lower in rank than an abbess); mother superior.

Translations

English

Etymology 1

mull +? -er

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?l?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)

Noun

muller (plural mullers)

1. One who, or that which, mulls.
2. (art) A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders.
3. A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.

Verb

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered)

1. To grind up into, or as if into, powder.
   • 1848, On Lucifer Matches, in the Pharmaceutical Journal, volume 7 (1847-8), page 523:

     The mixing is conducted in a water-bath, and during this process, and as long as the phosphorus is being ground or 'mullered,' copious fumes are evolved.

   • 1901, Patrick Walker, Six Saints of the Covenant, volume 1, page 31:

     I have often thought in my melancholy days, these years bygone, that if it might be supposed, that the souls of our worthies were come from heaven, and the dust of their mullered bodies from their graves, and reunite again;

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?l?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)

Noun

muller (plural mullers)

1. (metallurgy) A machine that mixes sand and clay for use in metal castings.

Synonyms

• sand muller

Etymology 3

Unknown. The most prosaic theory derives it from muller¹ (“to grind into powder”). One theory derives the term from the surname of the murderer Franz Müller, while another theory derives it from the surname of German footballer Gerd Müller; both are phonologically improbable. The Oxford Guide to Etymology ?ISBN, 2009) asserts that it is "very probably of Romani origin, from a verb ultimately related to Sanskrit m?-' 'to die')."

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)

Verb

muller (third-person singular simple present mullers, present participle mullering, simple past and past participle mullered)

1. (transitive, Britain, slang) To beat; to thrash (a person).
   • 2012, Anthony Cronshaw, Wednesday Rucks and Rock 'n' Roll: Tales from the East Bank

     The boys couldn't stand idly by while three Wednesdayites got mullered; it was not the done thing.

2. (transitive, Britain, slang) To defeat or destroy utterly (as in a sport or competition).

Quotations

• 1983, Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates, page 4:

  "No— beer was my Bessie's favorite drink, and since she mullered I've not had a drop of it."

References

• Wm. H. Peet, in Notes and Queries, page 337 (25 October 1902): The term "Muller," or "Muller-cut-down," applied to a hat, referred to an incident connected with the murder of Mr. Briggs in a railway carriage on 9 July, 1864. The murderer was Franz Müller, and [...] he was found with his victim's hat [...]. The hat had been specially made for Mr. Briggs, but Müller had had it cut down in a way that was common in the second-hand hat trade. For some years after a low hat was spoken of as a "Muller-cut-down," or a man was spoken of as having had his hat "mullered."

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin mulier, mulierem.

Noun

muller f (plural mullers)

1. woman
2. wife

Synonyms

• (wife): esposa

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin mulier, mulierem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /mu??e/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /mu??e?/

Noun

muller f (plural mullers)

1. wife

Synonyms

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Galician

Alternative forms

• mulher (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese muller, moller, from Latin mulier, mulierem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu????/, /mu????/

Noun

muller f (plural mulleres)

1. woman
2. wife

References

• “muller” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “muller” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “muller” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “muller” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “muller” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Old Portuguese

Noun

muller f

1. Alternative form of moller