dure

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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djʊə/

dure (third-person singular simple present dures, present participle during, simple past and past participle dured)

1. (archaic, intransitive) To last, continue, endure.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:

     she was one of the damoysels of the lake that hyȝte Nyneue / […] / And euer she maade Merlyn good chere tyl she had lerned of hym al maner thynge that she desyred and he was assoted vpon her that he myghte not be from her / Soo on a tyme he told kynge Arthur that he sholde not dure longe but for al his craftes he shold be put in the erthe quyck

   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XIII:

     But he that was sowne in the stony grunde ys he, which heareth the worde of God, and anon with ioye receaveth itt, yet hath no rottes in himselfe, And therefore he dureth but a season […].

From Latin dūrus. Doublet of dour.

dure (comparative more dure, superlative most dure)

1. (obsolete) hard; harsh; severe; rough
   • W. H. Russell

     The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.

• Duer, rude, rued, urdé, ured

dure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of durar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of durar

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dure

1. Inflected form of duur

dure

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of duren

• deur

• IPA^(key): /dyʁ/
• Rhymes: -yʁ

dure

1. first-person singular present indicative of durer
2. third-person singular present indicative of durer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of durer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of durer
5. second-person singular imperative of durer

dure

1. feminine singular of dur

• redû, rude

• Rhymes: -ure

dure

1. Feminine plural of adjective duro.

• rude

From dūrus (“hard, rough”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.reː/

dūrē (comparative dūrius, superlative dūrissimē)

1. harshly, sternly, roughly

   Synonym: dūriter

2. stiffly, awkwardly

• 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)

dure

1. Alternative form of diere

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dure

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of durar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of durar
3. first-person singular imperative of durar
4. third-person singular imperative of durar

dure

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of durar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of durar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of durar.