ure

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ure"

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre, opera, and opus.

Noun

ure (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, only in collocations in ure, out of ure) Use, practise, exercise.
   • 1567, Ovid, “The Seconde Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:

     I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre

   • c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer‎^[1], London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 17, p. 248:

     But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre
     That lies in vs;

   • 1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 ^[2]

     ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure

Derived terms

• inure

Verb

ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37,^[3]

     […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]

Etymology 2

From Middle French ure or its etymon Latin ūrus. Doublet of urus.

Noun

ure (plural ures) (rare)

1. Synonym of aurochs
   • 1577, William Harrison, “[An Historicall Description of the Islande of Britayne, […].] Of such Riuers as fall into the Sea, betweene Humber to the Thames.”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, folio 31, verso, column 1:

     The Vre therefoꝛe ryſeth in the fardeſt partes of all Richmondeſhyꝛe, among the Coterine hilles, in a moſſe, towarde the weſt fourtéene myles beyonde Mydleham.

   • 1864, “Species of Cattle, and Origin of the Domesticated Cattle”, in Eighteenth Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, with an Abstract of the Proceedings of the County Agricultural Societies: to the General Assembly of Ohio, for the Year 1863, Columbus: Richard Nevins, pages 365, 366, 368:

     The Auer or Ure ox or European Bison, (bos urus, bonasus, bison,) is one of the largest oxen, and distinguished by a curly manelike product about the head and neck, by a very broad, arched forehead, and by moderate horns situated far apart, and being curved inward and upward in the shape of a crescent. […] Some extracts from his work are here presented, because the opinion hitherto prevailing in certain circles that our common cattle were the offspring of the Ure; but according to these extracts it will be seen that several striking anatomical differences are found to exist between the Ure and our common cattle. […] The Ure has fourteen vertebræ, and as many pairs of ribs, or one pair more than common cattle, but has only five lumbar vertebræ of which the common cattle have six. […] In the old Ure, there was found in the midst of the two seminal passages, vessels, a single duct, shaped somewhat like a bag, one inch in diameter and four and a half inches in length, which is divided in front and at the top into two arching branches, like the horns of the uterus of the cow, extending as channels of 3 to 4 inches in width to the testicle, and there terminating in a cul-de-sac. […] From the above it appears that the origin of the domesticated cattle and their original native country is, as yet, not fully ascertained. Formerly the ure was considered the parent of the same, but this is improbable on account of the anatomical differences between the ure and the common cattle.

   • 1911, S. Baring-Gould, “Chapter VIII. The Fils Thal”, in The Land of Teck and Its Neighbourhood;  […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head; New York: John Lane Company, pages 176–177:

     In the Nibelungen Lied both beasts, also the giant elk, are spoken of as not extinct when that poem was written:— / Then slew he speedily a Wisent and an Elk, / Strong Ures and a giant stag (Schelch). / Cæsar describes the ure as “little smaller than an elephant, but in appearance like an ox, of great strength and speed; it never suffers itself to be tamed, and spares no man it sees. To have killed an ure is held in highest honour among the Germans, and its horns, set in silver, serve as drinking vessels at their carouses.”

   • 1952, Ochrona przyrody‎^[4], volume 20, pages 32, 33:

     The history of extinction of an animal has rarely been so rich in documents of all kinds as the history of the Ure or Aurochs, the second big-game representative of the bovine family in Europe, and one of the most remarkable species of wild oxen in the world. The special high interest attached to this animal is due to the fact that it is generally admitted to be the ancestral form of most European cattle breeds. The Ure ceased to exist in early historical times, though a small number of individuals survived in Poland as late as the XVII century. […] From the very early times, the first mention being that of 1510, the herds of Bos primigenius were under the protection and custody of special game-rangers who were free of all other occupation, as well as of all tax-paying, and were to look only after the wild Ures, feeding them in winter with hay collected from the adjoining meadows, and bringing back to the forest the individuals that occasionally went astray.

Usage notes

Ure-ox is more common; compare aurochs (ultimately from Old High German ūrohso, from ūro (“aurochs”) + ohso (“ox”)).

Related terms

• aurochs (perhaps related)
• urus

Etymology 3

Contraction

ure

1. (informal, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of you're (you are).

Anagrams

• ERU, EUR, Eur., Rue, eur-, eur., rue

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈy.rə/

Noun

ure

1. plural of uur

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ùꜛɾé/

Noun

ure (Kana spelling ウレ)

1. (anatomy) foot

   Synonym: cikiri

Ambai

Alternative forms

• uren
• ureŋ

Noun

ure

1. eye

Danish

Noun

ure n

1. indefinite plural of ur

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

ure

1. fire

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

ure

1. Rōmaji transcription of うれ

Latin

Verb

ūre

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ūrō

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French ore, from Latin hora.

Noun

ûre ?

1. hour

Descendants

• Dutch: uur (see there for further descendants)
• Limburgish: oer
• West Flemish: eure
• → Middle Low German: ūr
  • Plautdietsch: Ua
  • → Danish: ur
  • → Middle High German: ūre
    • Alemannic German: Uur
    • Bavarian: Uah
    • Central Franconian: Uhr, Ouher
    • German: Uhr (see there for further descendants)
    • Luxembourgish: Auer
  • → Saterland Frisian: Uure
• → West Frisian: oere

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman *ure (compare continental Old French uevre), from Latin opera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiu̯r(ə)/

Noun

ure (uncountable)

1. (usually with in) use, habit, custom

Descendants

• English: ure

References

• “ūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

ure

1. Alternative form of eure

Etymology 3

Determiner

ure

1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• ūser — Northumbrian, Mercian, or poetic
• ūr, usser — Mercian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz. For development compare Old Norse órr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuː.re/

Determiner

ūre

1. our

Declension

Declension of ūre — Strong only

Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ūre	ūru, ūro	ūre
Accusative	ūrne	ūre	ūre
Genitive	ūres	ūrre	ūres
Dative	ūrum	ūrre	ūrum
Instrumental	ūre	ūrre	ūre
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ūre	ūra, ūre	ūru, ūro
Accusative	ūre	ūra, ūre	ūru, ūro
Genitive	ūrra	ūrra	ūrra
Dative	ūrum	ūrum	ūrum
Instrumental	ūrum	ūrum	ūrum

Descendants

• Middle English: oure
  • English: our
  • Geordie English: wor
  • Scots: oor, wir

Pronoun

ūre

1. genitive of wē: ours, of us

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀉𑀭𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• उरे (Devanagari script)
• উরে (Bengali script)
• උරෙ (Sinhalese script)
• ဥရေ or ဢုရေ (Burmese script)
• อุเร (Thai script)
• ᩏᩁᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ອຸເຣ (Lao script)
• ឧរេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄪𑄢𑄬 (Chakma script)

Noun

ure

1. locative singular of uras (“breast”)

Rapa Nui

Noun

ure

1. penis

Usage notes

Largely considered archaic; replaced by a Tahitian term.

Rarotongan

Noun

ure

1. penis

Yola

Determiner

ure

1. Alternative form of oor
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 14-15:

     Mang ourzels——var wee dwytheth an Irelonde az ure generale haime——

     Unto ourselves——for we look on Ireland to be our common country——

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ū.ɾè/

Noun

urè

1. (Ekiti, zootomy) the thigh or leg of an animal; (especially) when cooked

   Synonym: tete

Zaghawa

Noun

ure

1. valley, wadi

References

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad