Noun: furo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: fù‧ro
| Singular m | furo |
| Singular f | fura |
| Plural m | furi |
| Plural f | fure |
Sample Sentences
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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.) [1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXI, page 317, lines 43–45:]
Nouns inflected like furo
signorino,
cazzaro,
cinegro,
bustinaro,
gazeo,
spaccino,
maomettano,
omiciattolo,
complottaro,
furo,
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fūr, from Proto-Italic *fōr, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr, derived from the root *bʰer- (“to carry”). See: Latin Nouns '
fūr'.
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