furo
English
Alternative forms
Noun
Catalan
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfuro]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -uro
- Hyphenation: fu‧ro
Galician
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfu.ro/
- Rhymes: -uro
- Hyphenation: fù‧ro
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin fūr, from Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, derived from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”).
Noun
furo m (plural furi)
- (obsolete) thief
- Synonym: ladro
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXI, page 317, lines 43–45:
- Là giù 'l buttò, e per lo scoglio duro ¶ si volse; e mai non fu mastino sciolto ¶ con tanta fretta a seguitar lo furo.
- He hurled him down, and over the hard crag turned round, and never was a mastiff loosened in so much hurry to pursue a thief.
Adjective
furo (feminine fura, masculine plural furi, feminine plural fure)
- (obsolete) thievish, dishonest
- Synonym: ladro
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXVII, page 405, lines 124–127:
- A Minòs mi portò; e quelli attorse ¶ otto volte la coda al dosso duro; ¶ e poi che per gran rabbia la si morse, ¶ disse: ‘Questi è d'i rei del foco furo’
- He bore me unto Minos, who entwined eight times his tail about his stubborn back, and after he had bitten it in great rage, said: 'Of the thievish fire a culprit this'
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
furo
Latin
Etymology 1
Uncertain. Used to calque Greek Ἐρινύς (Erinús), spirits of punishment in mythology. Possibly cognate with Proto-Slavic *buřa (cf. Russian буря (burja, “storm”)) and Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “to palpitate, quiver”), which would point to Proto-Indo-European *bʰur-.[1] Other proposed Proto-Indo-European origins include *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke”)[2] and *dʰewH- (“to shake; to rumble, roar”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfu.roː/, [ˈfʊroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfu.ro/, [ˈfuːro]
Verb
furō (present infinitive furere, perfect active furuī); third conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- to rave, rage, or seethe; to be crazed, mad, or frantic
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.594–595:
- “‘Nāte, quis indomitās tantus dolor excitat īrās?
Quid furis? Aut quōnam nostrī tibi cūra recessit?’”- “‘[My] son, what grief excites such untamed anger? Why [is it] you are raving? Or your care for me, where has it gone?’”
(Venus intervenes just as Aeneas reaches for his sword.)
- “‘[My] son, what grief excites such untamed anger? Why [is it] you are raving? Or your care for me, where has it gone?’”
- “‘Nāte, quis indomitās tantus dolor excitat īrās?
Conjugation
Derived terms
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfuː.roː/, [ˈfuːroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfu.ro/, [ˈfuːro]
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fūrō | fūrōnēs |
Genitive | fūrōnis | fūrōnum |
Dative | fūrōnī | fūrōnibus |
Accusative | fūrōnem | fūrōnēs |
Ablative | fūrōne | fūrōnibus |
Vocative | fūrō | fūrōnēs |
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “буря”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- “furo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “furo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- furo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- furo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfu.rɔ/
- Rhymes: -urɔ
- Syllabification: fu‧ro
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfu.ɾu/
- Rhymes: -uɾu
- Hyphenation: fu‧ro
Noun
furo m (plural furos)
Derived terms
- dar um furo
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
References
- “furo” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.