Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

murine

/ˈmjʊəɹaɪn/ adjective, noun

Forms murines

adjective Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mouse.
adjective More generally, of, pertaining to, or characteristic of any rodent up to the taxonomic rank of Muroidea, most often with reference to mice and rats of the subfamily Murinae.
noun (zoology) Any murine rodent.

Synonyms

Learned borrowing from Latin mūrīnus (“mouselike”).

adjective Pertaining to a family of rodents (Muridæ), of which the mouse is the type.
noun One of a tribe of rodents, of which the mouse is the type.

Etymology [L. murinus, from mus, muris, mouse: cf. F. murin.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “murine”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details