homo trium litterarum ("man of three letters," euphemism for fur)
Descendants
Aromanian: fur
Italian: furo
Old Occitan:
Catalan: fura, furó
Occitan: fura
Romanian: fur
⇒ Late Latin: fūrō, fūrōnis(“thief”)
Old French: fuiron (< *fūriō)
Old Galician-Portuguese: foron
Fala: furón
Galician: furón
Portuguese: furão
Old Spanish:
Spanish: hurón
→⇒ Central Franconian: Fürner (< *fūriō)
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *furittum(“petty thief”)
Italian: furetto
Occitan: furet, huret, fura
Old French: furet, firet, furret
French: furet
→ Middle English: furet, ferret
Scots: ferret
English: ferret
Romansch: furet
Sicilian: furittu
References
“fur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
fur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
fur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“fur”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old Dutch
Alternative forms
furi
Preposition
fur
for
References
Altniederfränkischer Psalm 55
Polish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /fur/
Rhymes: -ur
Syllabification: fur
Noun
furf
genitive plural of fura
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latinfūr, from Proto-Italic*fōr, from Proto-Indo-European*bʰṓr, from the root *bʰer-(“to carry”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [fur]
Verb
fur
first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of fura
Noun
furm (pluralfuri)
(archaic) thief
Synonyms:hoț, bandit
Related terms
fura
furt
Somali
Verb
fur
open
Swedish
Alternative forms
fure
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /fʉːr/
Rhymes: -ʉːr
Noun
furc (uncountable)
pinewood
(archaic) pine tree (in some areas chiefly about old trees)
Synonyms
(wood):furu
(tree):tall (if a distinction is made between this and "fur", this will be used about younger trees), fura