Dictionary formmurus, muri(masculine)
Translation
wall, city wall; rampart
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Grammar
Cases
| Case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativethe subject | murus | muri |
| Vocativecalling someone: O ... | mure | muri |
| Accusativethe direct object; after ad, in (into), per | murum | muros |
| Genitiveof | muri | murorum |
| Dativeto, for | muro | muris |
| Ablativeby, with, from; after a, ab, cum, de, e, ex, in (in), sine | muro | muris |
Examples
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The walls of the city were high.
oppugnabant.
The enemy were attacking the wall.
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A soldier was standing on the wall.
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They built new walls around the town.
lucebant.
Fires were shining on the walls.
Murus, muri, m., second declension: a built wall of stone or brick, and particularly a city wall.
Latin keeps three walls apart and it is worth keeping them apart in translation too. Murus is the structure itself. Moenia, neuter plural and with no singular, is the whole defensive circuit of a city, walls and towers and gates together. Paries is the wall of a room or a house, the thing you hang a picture on. Roman religious law treated the murus of Rome as sacred and inviolable, which is the point of the story in which Remus jumps over the line his brother has marked and is killed for it. English mural and immure come from it, and Spanish muro and French mur run straight on.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 12: murus, aetas, articulus and 10 more words.