lura

Dissimillation of lula, probably a back formation from an earlier *loliin, from Latin lōllīginem (“squid, cuttlefish”).[1]

• lula

• IPA^(key): /ˈluɾa̝/

lura f (plural luras)

1. squid (Loligo vulgaris)
   • 1417, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 75:

     Iten que se venda o pescado en esta maneira: a libra dos sacadores et das sollas et dos bodiõos, dos polvos et das fanequas et das rayas et das langostas et das sibias et das luras a tres dineiros cada libra

     Item, they should sell the captured fish in this way: the pound of sacadores [?], of plaices, of Baillon's wrasses, of octopuses, of poutings, of stingrays, of lobsters, of cuttlefish and of squids, three diñeiros each pound

2. (derogatory, dated) fisherman
3. (mildly derogatory) a stingy person

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *lour-, *lōr-, *lūr-.[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈluɾa̝/

lura f (plural luras)

1. den
2. (figuratively) nostril, nose, mucus

• “lura” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “lura” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lura” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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lūra f (genitive lūrae); first declension

1. sack, bag
2. (figuratively) belly, paunch

First declension.

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

From Middle Low German luren

• lure

• IPA^(key): /²lʉːrɑ/

lura (present tense lurar or lurer, past tense lura or lurte, past participle lura or lurt, present participle lurande, imperative lur)

1. to deceive, trick
2. to lurk
3. to wonder (på / about)

• “lura” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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• Rhymes: -²ʉːra

lura (present lurar, preterite lurade, supine lurat, imperative lura)

1. to trick, to fool, to deceive, to lure

• bedra

• lur
• lurendrejare
• lurendrejeri
• lurifax
• lurig