mucor
See also: Mucor
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mucor.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmjuːkə(ɹ)/
Noun
mucor (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The property of being mucid.
- a. 1691, Robert Boyle, The Second Continuation of Physico-Mechanical Experiments
- I perceived one tulip in the compressed air to be infected with some mucor or sinew
- a. 1691, Robert Boyle, The Second Continuation of Physico-Mechanical Experiments
Anagrams
- Corum, Muroc, mucro
French
Noun
mucor m (plural mucors)
- any fungus of the genus Mucor
Further reading
- “mucor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
From mūceō (“become moldy”) + -or.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmuː.kor/, [ˈmuːkɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmu.kor/, [ˈmuːkor]
Noun
mūcor m (genitive mūcōris); third declension
- bread-mold, moldiness
- wine-must
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mūcor | mūcōrēs |
Genitive | mūcōris | mūcōrum |
Dative | mūcōrī | mūcōribus |
Accusative | mūcōrem | mūcōrēs |
Ablative | mūcōre | mūcōribus |
Vocative | mūcor | mūcōrēs |
Descendants
- Aromanian: mucoari
- → English: mucor
- → French: mucor
- Romanian: mucoare
- Spanish: mugor, mugre
- Translingual: Mucor
References
- “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