murice

murice is a Latin form of murex, meaning “purple fish, shellfish which gave Tyrian dye; purple dye; purple cloth”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Eclogues 4.44: murice, iam croceo mutabit vellera luto;

Ovid, Remedia amoris 708: Murice cum Tyrio; turpius illud erit:

All forms of murex (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.