-tura
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-tura
- -ing; -tion; -ure
- added to form nouns of mass or collection
- attrezzo (“tool”) + -tura → attrezzatura (“equipment”)
- fogna (“sewer”) + -tura → fognatura (“sewage system”)
- magistrato (“magistrate”) + -tura → magistratura (“magistracy”)
- added to verbs form nouns relating to their action
- added to form nouns of mass or collection
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Etymology edit
Somewhat uncertain, but appears to be from Proto-Indo-European *-tew- + *-r-eh₂. Note however that some cases are built on agentives in -tōr: e.g. cēnsūra, gladiātūra.[1] Resemblance to the future active participle -tūrus and archaic infinitive -tūrum is evidently accidental, though substantivizations like futūrus may have reinforced the use of -tūra.
Productive in earlier Latin but gradually overtaken by -tiō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtuː.ra/, [ˈt̪uːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtu.ra/, [ˈt̪uːrä]
Suffix edit
-tūra f (genitive -tūrae); first declension
- Used to form action nouns expressing concrete results as well as activities: -ing, -ure
Usage notes edit
The suffix -tūra is added to the supine form of a verb to create a first-declension noun naming the verb's action or the result of that action.
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The suffix -tūra resembles the feminine form of (but may not be related to) the future active participle ending -tūrus, which describes impending or imminent action (e.g. pictūrus "about to paint"; scrīptūrus "on the point of writing").
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | -tūra | -tūrae |
Genitive | -tūrae | -tūrārum |
Dative | -tūrae | -tūrīs |
Accusative | -tūram | -tūrās |
Ablative | -tūrā | -tūrīs |
Vocative | -tūra | -tūrae |
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References edit
- ^ Miller, D. Gary (2006) Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English: and their Indo-European Ancestry, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 3.9 -tūra/-sūra (> E -ture/-sure), pages 118–119