-ura
التعريفات والمعاني
== Catalan ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Latin -ūra.
=== Pronunciation ===
Rhymes: -uɾa
=== Suffix ===
-ura f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ures)
-ness (forms nouns of quality from adjectives)
==== Derived terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“-ura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
== Finnish ==
=== Etymology ===
-u + -ra
=== Suffix ===
-ura (front vowel harmony variant -yrä, linguistic notation -UrA)
Forms diminutive nouns.
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
== Galician ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin -ūra.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈuɾɐ]
=== Suffix ===
-ura f (noun-forming suffix, plural -uras)
-ness (forms nouns of quality from adjectives)
Synonym: -eza
lento (“damp”) + -ura → lentura (“dampness”)
triste (“sad”) + -ura → tristura (“sadness”)
==== Derived terms ====
From .
== Italian ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Latin -ūra.
=== Suffix ===
-ura f
used to form collective nouns
==== Derived terms ====
=== Anagrams ===
Aru, Rua, rua
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
From Classical Latin -tūra, which typically derived abstract nouns from the supine/perfect past participle stem of verb bases (e.g. coniectūra from the verb coniciō (“to throw; foretell; conjecture”) (supine stem coniect-).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [uː.ra]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [u.ra]
=== Suffix ===
-ūra f (genitive -ūrae); first declension
(post-Classical) Suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives.
==== Inflection ====
First-declension noun.
==== Derived terms ====
== Polish ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ura.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈu.ra/
Rhymes: -ura
Syllabification: -u‧ra
=== Suffix ===
-ura f
forms feminine nouns, often related to offices
bździć + -ura → bzdura
administrator + -ura → administratura
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
=== Further reading ===
-ura in Polish dictionaries at PWN
== Portuguese ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin -ūra.
=== Pronunciation ===
Rhymes: -uɾɐ
Hyphenation: u‧ra
=== Suffix ===
-ura f (noun-forming suffix, plural -uras)
-ness (forms nouns of quality from adjectives)
==== Derived terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“-ura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“-ura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
== Serbo-Croatian ==
=== Etymology ===
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=== Suffix ===
-ura (Cyrillic spelling -ура)
suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually a pejorative
=== See also ===
-urina
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Latin -ūra.
=== Suffix ===
-ura f (noun-forming suffix, plural -uras)
attaches to adjectives to form abstract nouns
loco (“crazy”) + -ura → locura (“madness”)
==== Derived terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“-ura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025