Where does “mura” come from?
mura (Italian) comes from Italian muro, from Latin mūrus, from Old Latin moerus, from Proto-Indo-European mēy- — soft, tender, dear.
mura (Italian): plural of muro; city walls, battlements;...
Definitions
- plural of muro; city walls, battlements;...
Ancestry of “mura”, step by step
mura traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian muro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | muro | wall; first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 2 | Latin | mūrus | wall, city wall(s), (usually of a city, as opposed to pariēs) |
| 3 | Old Latin | moerus | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | mēy- | soft, tender, dear |
via Italian murare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | murare | to wall up; to embed into a wall |
| 2 | Italian | -are | Used, with a stem, to form the infinitive of most... |
| 3 | Latin | -ō | suffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |