futurus

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Kortlandt (1986:91) suggests that the short vowel in fu- (rather than long fū-) is more easily explained as descending not from *bʰuH- but from bʰHu- with regular laryngeal metathesis from bhuH-, per Werner Winter (1965:192).

Cognate with English be, Ancient Greek φύω (phúō), Sanskrit भवति (bhávati), Persian بودن (budan), Irish bí, among others. Also see be.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fuˈtuː.rus/, [fʊˈt̪uːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fuˈtu.rus/, [fuˈt̪uːrus]

futūrus (feminine futūra, neuter futūrum); first/second-declension participle

1. about to be, about to exist
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.297–298:

     [...] mōtūsque excēpit prīma futūrōs,
     omnia tūta timēns. [...].

     [...] and of her own intuition [Dido] knew first that [something] was about to happen, fearing everything, [however] safe.

2. (grammar) future
3. future active participle of sum.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “futurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “futurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• futurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • for the future: in posterum; in futurum
    
  • to foresee the future: futura providere (not praevidere)
    
  • to foresee the far distant future: futura or casus futuros (multo ante) prospicere
    
  • to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare
    
  • to-day the 5th of September; tomorrow September the 5th: hodie qui est dies Non. Sept.; cras qui dies futurus est Non. Sept.
    
  • to foresee political events long before: longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae (De Amic. 12. 40)