# murex
## English

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### Etymology

From Latin murex.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈmjʊɚ.ɛks/

### Noun

murex (plural murexes or murices)
* Any of the genus Murex of marine gastropods.
** 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 25:The bank of crushed murex shell that Professor Bosanquet found here, and again at Palaikastro, in company with a whole mass of Kamáres pottery, shows that the men of Sidon and Tyre were not the first to practise the dying of purple.
** 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.

#### Hypernyms

* muricine

#### Hyponyms

* woodcock murex

#### Derived terms

* caltrop murex (Murex tribulus)
* purple dye murex (Haustellum brandaris)
* spiny murex (Haustellum brandaris)

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* muxer, rumex

## French
### Etymology

From Latin.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

murex m (plural murex)
* Murex

### Further reading

* “murex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* rumex

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmuː.reks/, [ˈmuːrɛks̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmu.reks/, [ˈmuːreks]

### Noun

mūrex m (genitive mūricis); third declension
* A shellfish used as a source of the dye Tyrian purple; the purple-fish
* Tyrian purple, the purple dye, a purple color, made from the juice of the purple-fish
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.107:induerat Tyriō bis tīnctam mūrice pallamHe had put on his mantle, twice dyed with Tyrian purple.
* A sharp murex shell used as a bridle bit.
* A pointed rock or stone.
* A caltrop.
* An iron spike.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* mūricātus
* mūriculus
* mūriculātus

#### Descendants

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

### References

* ↑ 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
* ↑ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “murex”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, 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