mucor

See also: Mucor

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mucor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmjuːkə(ɹ)/

Noun

mucor (uncountable)

  1. (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

French

Noun

mucor m (plural mucors)

  1. any fungus of the genus Mucor

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From mūceō (I am moldy) + -or.

Pronunciation

Noun

mūcor m (genitive mūcōris); third declension

  1. bread-mold, moldiness
  2. 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.
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