Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒu.re/
  • Rhymes: -ure
  • Hyphenation: giù‧re

Etymology 1 edit

From Latin iūre, form of iūs (law”, “right), from Proto-Italic *jowos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéw-os, from the root *h₂yew- (justice”, “law).

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

giure m (plural giuri or (archaic) giura f)

  1. (literary, law) law, jurisprudence
    Synonym: gius
    • c. 13161321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XI”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎[1], lines 4–6; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Chi dietro a iura e chi ad amforismi
      sen giva, e chi seguendo sacerdozio,
      e chi regnar per forza o per sofismi
      One after laws and one to aphorisms was going, and one following the priesthood, and one to reign by force or sophistry

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

giure f

  1. plural of giura

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Determiner edit

giure

  1. Alternative form of your