murex

See also: Murex

English
shell of a Venus comb murex (Murex pecten)

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Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmjʊɚ.ɛks/

Noun

murex (plural murexes or murices)

  1. Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
    • 1991, John Montroll, Robert J. Lang, Origami Sea Life, page 56:
      The murexes (family Muricidae) are one of the most beautiful and sought-after families by shell collectors.

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French

Etymology

From Latin.

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  1. Murex

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps a derivative of mūs (“mouse”), whence mūsculus (“a saltwater mussel”).[1] Alternatively, together with Ancient Greek μύαξ (múax, “sea mussel”) borrowed from a Mediterranean substrate language.[2]

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Noun

mūrex m (genitive mūricis); third declension

  1. A shellfish used as a source of the dye Tyrian purple; the purple-fish
  2. Tyrian purple, the purple dye, a purple color, made from the juice of the purple-fish
    • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.107:
      induerat Tyriō bis tīnctam mūrice pallam
      He had put on his mantle, twice dyed with Tyrian purple.
  3. A sharp murex shell used as a bridle bit.
  4. A pointed rock or stone.
  5. A caltrop.
  6. An iron spike.

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Descendants
  • English: muriciform, muricite, muricoid
  • Irish: maorach
  • Catalan: múrex
  • Italian: murice
  • Portuguese: múrice
  • Spanish: múrice
  • Translingual: Murex

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “mus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 396
  2. Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “murex”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of Jacques André, 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, pages 422–423

Further reading
  • “murex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “murex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “murex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Rich, Anthony (1849), “murex”, in The Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary and Greek Lexicon, London: Longmans, page 435
  • “murex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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