furo

• ofuro

Borrowed from Japanese 風呂.

furo (plural furos or furo)

1. A Japanese bath, generally deep and square-sided, and traditionally made of wood.

• four, rouf

furo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of furar

From Late Latin fūrō (“cat; robber”), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”), with influence from French furet (“ferret”).

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• IPA^(key): /ˈfuro/
• Hyphenation: fu‧ro
• Rhymes: -uro

furo (accusative singular furon, plural furoj, accusative plural furojn)

1. ferret

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.ro/, [ˈfuːr̺o]
• Stress: fùro
• Hyphenation: fu‧ro

From Latin fūr, from Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, derived from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”).

furo m (plural furi)

1. (obsolete) thief

   Synonym: ladro

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXI, lines 43–45, page 317:

     Là giù 'l buttò, e per lo scoglio duro ¶ si volse; e mai non fu mastino sciolto ¶ con tanta fretta a seguitar lo furo.

     He hurled him down, and over the hard crag turned round, and never was a mastiff loosened in so much hurry to pursue a thief.

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1. (obsolete) thievish, dishonest

   Synonym: ladro

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXVII, lines 124–127, page 405:

     A Minòs mi portò; e quelli attorse ¶ otto volte la coda al dosso duro; ¶ e poi che per gran rabbia la si morse, ¶ disse: ‘Questi è d'i rei del foco furo’

     He bore me unto Minos, who entwined eight times his tail about his stubborn back, and after he had bitten it in great rage, said: 'Of the thievish fire a culprit this'

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• furare
• furto

See the etymology of the main entry.

furo

1. first-person singular present indicative of furare

See the etymology of the main entry.

furo

1. Obsolete form of furono, third-person plural past historic indicative of essere

furo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふろ
2. Rōmaji transcription of フロ

Uncertain. Used to calque Greek Ἐρινύς (Erinús), spirits of punishment in mythology. Proposed origins include Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.roː/, [ˈfʊ.roː]

furō (present infinitive furere, perfect active furuī); third conjugation, no passive

1. I rave or rage

• furia
• furibundus
• furor

Confusion with fūr.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.roː/

fūrō m (genitive fūrōnis); third declension

1. Alternative form of fūr

Third declension.

• furo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• furo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• furo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• furo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Back-formation from furar.[1] Compare Italian foro.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuru/

furo m (plural furos)

1. hole, orifice

   Synonyms: buraco, orifício

2. (colloquial) puncture

• dar um furo

See the etymology of the main entry.

furo

1. first-person singular present indicative of furar