See also: furaré

Italian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin fūrārī, derived from fūr (thief).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /fuˈra.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: fu‧rà‧re

Verb edit

furàre (first-person singular present fùro, first-person singular past historic furài, past participle furàto, auxiliary avére)

  1. (archaic) to steal
    Synonym: rubare
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XX, page 307, lines 109–111:
      Del folle Acàn ciascun poi si ricorda, ¶ come furò le spoglie, sì che l'ira ¶ di Iosüè qui par ch'ancor lo morda.
      The foolish Achan each one then records, and how he stole the spoils; so that the wrath of Joshua still appears to sting him here.
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Purgatorio [The Divine Comedy: Purgatory] (paperback), Bompiani, published 2001, Canto XXX, page 467, lines 103–105:
      «Voi vigilate ne l'etterno die, ¶ sì che notte né sonno a voi non fura ¶ passo che faccia il secol per sue vie; [] »
      Ye keep your watch in the eternal day, so that nor night nor sleep can steal from you one step the ages make upon their path;
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XIII, page 239, lines 139–142:
      Non creda donna Berta e ser Martino, ¶ per vedere un furare, altro offerere, ¶ vederli dentro al consiglio divino; ¶ ché quel può surgere, e quel può cadere.
      Let not Dame Bertha nor Ser Martin think, seeing one steal, another offering make, to see them in the arbitrament divine; for one may rise, and fall the other may.
  2. (archaic) to kidnap
    Synonym: rapire
  3. (figurative, archaic) to take away
    Synonym: portare via
    • Morte fura prima i migliori, e lascia star i reiDeath takes the best [ones] away first, and leaves the wicked be

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fūrāre

  1. second-person singular present active imperative/indicative of fūror