morsure

Inherited from Middle English morsure, from Middle French or Anglo-Norman morsure, from Early Medieval Latin morsūra, from mordēre, morsum (“to bite”) +‎ -ūra (“ure”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːʒə/, /ˈmɔːʃə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹʒɚ/, /ˈmɔɹʃɚ/

morsure (countable and uncountable, plural morsures)

1. (rare) The act of biting.
   • 1710, Jonathan Swift, A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit:

     all invention is formed by the morsure of two or more of these animals, upon certain capillary nerves, which proceed from thence, whereof three branches spread into the tongue, and two into the right hand.

• “morsure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Rumores

Inherited from Middle French morsure, from Old French morsure, from Early Medieval Latin morsūra; equivalent to mors +‎ -ure.

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ.syʁ/

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morsure f (plural morsures)

1. bite (act of biting)
   • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 393:

     La pluie a cédé à un froid de lame de rasoir mais il a dû choper la fièvre, sous la morsure du froid sa peau le brûle littéralement.

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2. bite (wound that is the result of being bitten)

• mordre

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

morsūre

1. vocative masculine singular of morsūrus

Borrowed from Middle French or Anglo-Norman morsure, from Early Medieval Latin morsūra, from mordēre, morsum (“to bite”) +‎ -ūra (“ure”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔrˈsiu̯r(ə)/

morsure (uncountable)

1. (rare) A bite; the act of biting.

• English: morsure (rare)

• “morsūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Stratmann, Francis Henry (1891), “morsure, sb.”, in Henry Bradley, editor, A Middle-English Dictionary (A Dictionary of Middle-English)‎^[1], [4th edition,] re-arranged, revised, and enlarged, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 436; reprinted 1974, →ISBN, →OCLC.