Etymology

immure

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Today it means: To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls. Full definition →

Middle English enmuren ← Middle French emmurer ← Old French enmurer
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  1. Latin · derived fromimmūrō
  2. Old French · derived fromenmurer
  3. Middle French · borrowed fromemmurer
  4. Middle English · inherited fromenmuren
  5. English todayimmure

From Middle English enmuren and Middle French emmurer, both from Old French enmurer, from Latin immūrō, from in- + mūrus (“wall”). Modern spelling is modelled after the Latin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.