mucor
Appearance
See also: Mucor
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mucor (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The property of being mucid.
- 1682, Robert Boyle, “A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The Second Part. […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, page 120, column 2:
- This day I perceived one tulip in the compreſſed air to be infected vvith ſome mucor or ſinevv; but thoſe, vvhich remained in the common air, vvere all very mucid; and alſo one of the lark-ſpurs, in the common air, had contracted a mucor.
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]mucor m (plural mucors)
Further reading
[edit]- “mucor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mūceō (“I am moldy”) + -or.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.kor/, [ˈmuːkɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.kor/, [ˈmuːkor]
Noun
[edit]mūcor m (genitive mūcōris); third declension
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | mūcor | mūcōrēs |
genitive | mūcōris | mūcōrum |
dative | mūcōrī | mūcōribus |
accusative | mūcōrem | mūcōrēs |
ablative | mūcōre | mūcōribus |
vocative | mūcor | mūcōrēs |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “mucor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mucor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms with quotations
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Latin terms suffixed with -or
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the third declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- la:Fungi