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

• Corum, Muroc, mucro

French

Noun

mucor m (plural mucors)

1. 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 (“I am moldy”) +‎ -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː.kor/, [ˈmuːkɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmu.kor/, [ˈmuːkor]

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.