murus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mūrus.

Noun

murus (plural muri)

1. wall
2. (palynology) A pattern-forming ridge on the surface of a pollen grain.

Etymology

From *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”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.rus/, [ˈmuː.rʊs]

Noun

mūrus m (genitive mūrī); second declension

1. a wall

References

• murus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• murus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• murus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• murus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to throw oneself from the ramparts: se deicere de muro
    
  • to scale the walls by means of ladders: positis scalis muros ascendere
    
  • the battering-ram strikes the wall: aries murum attingit, percutit
    
  • to drive the defenders from the walls: murum nudare defensoribus
    
• murus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• murus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin