ure
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre and opera.
Noun edit
ure (uncountable)
- (obsolete, only in collocations in ure, out of ure) Use, practise, exercise.
- 1567, Ovid, “The Seconde Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:
- I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre
- c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer[1], London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 17, p. 248:
- But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre
That lies in vs;
- 1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 [2]
- ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured)
- (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
- 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37,[3]
- […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]
- 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37,[3]
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle French ure or its etymon Latin ūrus.[1] Doublet of urus.
Noun edit
- Synonym of aurochs
- 1864, “Species of Cattle, and Origin of the Domesticated Cattle”, in Eighteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, with an Abstract of the Proceedings of the County Agricultural Societies: to the General Assembly of Ohio, for the Year 1863, Columbus: Richard Nevins, pages 365, 366, 368:
- The Auer or Ure ox or European Bison, (bos urus, bonasus, bison,) is one of the largest oxen, and distinguished by a curly manelike product about the head and neck, by a very broad, arched forehead, and by moderate horns situated far apart, and being curved inward and upward in the shape of a crescent. […] Some extracts from his work are here presented, because the opinion hitherto prevailing in certain circles that our common cattle were the offspring of the Ure; but according to these extracts it will be seen that several striking anatomical differences are found to exist between the Ure and our common cattle. […] The Ure has fourteen vertebræ, and as many pairs of ribs, or one pair more than common cattle, but has only five lumbar vertebræ of which the common cattle have six. […] In the old Ure, there was found in the midst of the two seminal passages, vessels, a single duct, shaped somewhat like a bag, one inch in diameter and four and a half inches in length, which is divided in front and at the top into two arching branches, like the horns of the uterus of the cow, extending as channels of 3 to 4 inches in width to the testicle, and there terminating in a cul-de-sac. […] From the above it appears that the origin of the domesticated cattle and their original native country is, as yet, not fully ascertained. Formerly the ure was considered the parent of the same, but this is improbable on account of the anatomical differences between the ure and the common cattle.
- 1911, S. Baring-Gould, “Chapter VIII. The Fils Thal”, in The Land of Teck and Its Neighbourhood; […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York: John Lane Company, pages 176–177:
- In the Nibelungen Lied both beasts, also the giant elk, are spoken of as not extinct when that poem was written:— / Then slew he speedily a Wisent and an Elk, / Strong Ures and a giant stag (Schelch). / Cæsar describes the ure as “little smaller than an elephant, but in appearance like an ox, of great strength and speed; it never suffers itself to be tamed, and spares no man it sees. To have killed an ure is held in highest honour among the Germans, and its horns, set in silver, serve as drinking vessels at their carouses.”
- 1952, Ochrona przyrody[4], volume 20, pages 32, 33:
- The history of extinction of an animal has rarely been so rich in documents of all kinds as the history of the Ure or Aurochs, the second big-game representative of the bovine family in Europe, and one of the most remarkable species of wild oxen in the world. The special high interest attached to this animal is due to the fact that it is generally admitted to be the ancestral form of most European cattle breeds. The Ure ceased to exist in early historical times, though a small number of individuals survived in Poland as late as the XVII century. […] From the very early times, the first mention being that of 1510, the herds of Bos primigenius were under the protection and custody of special game-rangers who were free of all other occupation, as well as of all tax-paying, and were to look only after the wild Ures, feeding them in winter with hay collected from the adjoining meadows, and bringing back to the forest the individuals that occasionally went astray.
Usage notes edit
Ure-ox is more common; compare aurochs (ultimately from Old High German ūrohso, from ūro (“aurochs”) + ohso (“ox”)).
Related terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Contraction edit
ure
- (informal, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of you're (you are).
References edit
- ^ “ure, n.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
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Noun edit
ure
Ainu edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ure (Kana spelling ウレ)
Ambai edit
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ure
Danish edit
Noun edit
ure n
- indefinite plural of ur
Eastern Arrernte edit
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ure
References edit
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
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ure
Latin edit
Verb edit
ūre
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French ore, from Latin hora.
Noun edit
ûre ?
Descendants edit
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman *ure (compare continental Old French uevre), from Latin opera.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ure (uncountable)
Descendants edit
- English: ure
References edit
- “ūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
ure
- Alternative form of eure
Etymology 3 edit
Determiner edit
ure
- Alternative form of oure (“our”)
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz. For development compare Old Norse órr.
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
ūre
Declension edit
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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Nominative | ūre | ūru, ūro | ūre |
Accusative | ūrne | ūre | ūre |
Genitive | ūres | ūrre | ūres |
Dative | ūrum | ūrre | ūrum |
Instrumental | ūre | ūrre | ūre |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | ūre | ūra, ūre | ūru, ūro |
Accusative | ūre | ūra, ūre | ūru, ūro |
Genitive | ūrra | ūrra | ūrra |
Dative | ūrum | ūrum | ūrum |
Instrumental | ūrum | ūrum | ūrum |
Descendants edit
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ūre
Pali edit
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ure
Rapa Nui edit
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ure
Usage notes edit
Largely considered archaic; replaced by a Tahitian term.
Rarotongan edit
Noun edit
ure
Yola edit
Determiner edit
ure
- Alternative form of oor
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 14-15:
- Mang ourzels——var wee dwytheth an Irelonde az ure generale haime——
- Unto ourselves——for we look on Ireland to be our common country——
References edit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 114
Yoruba edit
Pronunciation edit
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urè
Zaghawa edit
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ure
References edit
- Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad