dure
See also: Appendix:Variations of "dure"
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English duren (“to last”), from Old French durer, from Latin durāre. Related to Dutch duren (“to last, dure”), German dauern (“to last, dure”).
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dure (third-person singular simple present dures, present participle during, simple past and past participle dured)
- (archaic, intransitive) To last, continue, endure.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “primum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
- Soo on a tyme he told kynge Arthur that he sholde not dure longe […]
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- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xiij:[23], folio xviij, recto:
- But he that was ſowne in the ſtony grũde ys he / which heareth the worde of God / and anon with ioye receaveth itt / yet hath he no rottꝭ in him ſelfe / And therefore he dureth but a ſeaſon […].
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to last, continue, endure
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin dūrus. Doublet of dour.
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dure (comparative more dure, superlative most dure)
- (archaic) hard; harsh; severe; rough
- 1861, William Howard Russell, Leicester Chronicle:
- The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.
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dure
- inflection of duur:
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dure
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dure
- inflection of durer:
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dure
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dure
- inflection of durar:
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dure f pl
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From dūrus (“hard, rough”).
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈduː.reː/, [ˈd̪uːreː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdu.re/, [ˈd̪uːre]
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dūrē (comparative dūrius, superlative dūrissimē)
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- “dure”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dure”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dure in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
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dure
- Alternative form of diere
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dure
- inflection of durar:
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dure
- inflection of durar: