segur
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Catalan segur, from Latin sēcūrus. Compare Occitan segur, Spanish seguro, French sure.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
segur (feminine segura, masculine plural segurs, feminine plural segures)
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References edit
- “segur” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “segur” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese segur (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin secūris.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
segur m (plural segures)
- (now literary) axe
- 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:
- que nõ ficou deles nĩhũu senõ pouquos que nõ fosen hũus chagados et os outros degolados, et outros [con] grãdes feridas de lanças et cortos cõ segures, et outros chagados cõ seetas et cõ dardos
- and there were but few left that were not injured, others having their throat slit, others with large spear wounds and cut with axes, and others wounded with arrows and darts
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Occitan edit
Etymology edit
From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin sēcūrus.
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Audio (Béarn) (file)
Adjective edit
segur m (feminine singular segura, masculine plural segurs, feminine plural seguras)
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Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin secūris, related to secō (“I cut”). Compare Old Galician-Portuguese segur.
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Noun edit
segur f (plural segures)
- axe
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 49r:
- pues quãdo frago ſalomon la caſa maẏlla. ni segur ni nulla ferramienta no ẏ fue aẏuda en la caſa del criador.
- Now when Solomon built the house, [no] hammer, nor axe nor any iron tool was heard there, in the house of the Creator.
Descendants edit
- Spanish: segur
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish segur, from Latin secūris.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
segur f or m (plural segures)
- a small axe similar to or also fulfilling the function of an adze, a scythe, a fascis, or even a spokeshave
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Descendants edit
- → Andalusian Arabic: شُقُور (šuqūr, “axe”)
- → Moroccan Arabic: شَاقُور (šāqūr, “adze of a carpenter; hatchet”)
- → Central Atlas Tamazight: šaquṛ (“axe”); pl. šwaqwṛ
- ⇒ Central Atlas Tamazight: tašaquṛt (“small axe, hatchet”); pl. tašaquṛin
- → Tarifit: ccaqur (“axe; hatchet”)
- → Central Atlas Tamazight: šaquṛ (“axe”); pl. šwaqwṛ
- → Algerian Arabic: شَاقُور (šāqūr, “adze of a carpenter; hatchet”)
- ⇒ Algerian Arabic: شَاقُورَة (šāqūṛa, šāqōṛa, “small axe, hatchet”)
- → Tunisian Arabic: شَقُور (šāqūr, šaqūr, “adze of a carpenter; hatchet”)/شَاقُور (šāqūr, šaqūr, “adze of a carpenter; hatchet”)
- → Egyptian Arabic: شَقُورَة (šaʔūṛa, “adze for agricultural purposes”)
Further reading edit
- “segur”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “Orígenes del segur”, in Armas y armaduras en España, 2012 February 27
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Welsh segur, from Proto-Brythonic *segʉr, from Latin sēcūrus. Doublet of sicr and siwr.
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈsɛɡɨ̞r/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈseːɡɪr/, /ˈsɛɡɪr/
Adjective edit
segur (feminine singular segur, plural segurion, equative mor segur, comparative mwy segur, superlative mwyaf segur, not mutable)