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/, /dʒʊə/

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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, “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

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   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Matthew xiij:[23], folio xviij, recto:

     But he that was ſowne in the ſtony grũde ys he / which heareth the worde of God / and anon with ioye receaveth itt / yet hath he no rottꝭ in him ſelfe / And therefore he dureth but a ſeaſon […].

From Latin dūrus. Doublet of dour.

dure (comparative more dure, superlative most dure)

1. (archaic) hard; harsh; severe; rough
   • 1861, William Howard Russell, in Leicester Chronicle

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

• peine forte et dure

• 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/

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dure

1. inflection of durer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

dure

1. feminine singular of dur

• redû, rude

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu.re/
• Rhymes: -ure
• Hyphenation: dù‧re

dure f pl

1. feminine plural of duro

• rude

From dūrus (“hard, rough”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈduː.reː/, [ˈd̪uːreː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdu.re/, [ˈd̪uːre]

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. inflection of durar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

dure

1. inflection of durar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative