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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /fɜː/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /fɝ/
• (Scotland) IPA: /fʌr/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /føː/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA: /feː/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA: /fɛː/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: fir (fern–fir–fur merger); fair, fare (both fair–fur merger)

名詞

fur (countable and uncountable, plural furs)

1. (uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
2. (uncountable) The hairy skins of animals used as a material for clothing.
3. (countable) An animal pelt used to make, trim or line clothing.

   During the colonial period, Britain used Canada as a major source of furs.

4. (countable) A garment made of fur.
   • November 17, 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter to the Countess of Mar

     wrapped up in my furs

5. (uncountable) A coating or lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.
   1. (uncountable) A thick pile of fabric.
   2. (uncountable) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
   3. (uncountable) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
   4. (uncountable) The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
6. (heraldry, countable) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures, such as ermine and vair.

   Coordinate terms: colour, metal, stain

7. (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
8. (countable) A furry, a member of the furry fandom.
   • 2006, Shari Caudron, Who Are You People?:

     "You want to know what brings furries together?" she asks. "Furs are here because they don't fit in anywhere else. For real furs, this is the only place they feel comfortable."

9. (informal, uncountable) Human body hair, especially when abundant.
10. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Pubic hair.
11. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual attractiveness.

派生語

動詞

fur (third-person singular simple present furs, present participle furring, simple past and past participle furred)

1. (transitive) To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.
2. (intransitive) To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.
   • 2015, Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons:

     The college water supply was practically undrinkable because of its salinity and the pipes furred up so rapidly that they had to be replaced every few years.

3. (transitive, construction) To level a surface by applying furring to it.

   Synonym: fur out

派生語

• furred

語源 2

接続詞

fur

1. Pronunciation spelling of for.

前置詞

fur

1. Pronunciation spelling of for.
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “The Beginning of a Longer Journey”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 516:

     A’most the moment as she lighted heer, all so desolate, she found (as she believed) a friend; a decent woman as spoke to her about the needle-work as she had been brought up to do, about finding plenty of it fur her, about a lodging fur the night, and making secret inquiration concerning of me and all at home, to-morrow.

アナグラム

• urf

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈfuːr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈfur]

名詞

fūr m or f (genitive fūris); third declension

1. a thief
   • 52 BCE, Cicero, Pro Milone 3.9:

     Quod si XII tabulae nocturnum furem quoquo modo, diurnum autem, si se telo defenderet, interfici impune voluerunt, quis est qui, quoquo modo quis interfectus sit, puniendum putet, cum videat aliquando gladium nobis ad hominem occidendum ab ipsis porrigi legibus?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (derogatory, especially said to a slave) a rogue, rascal, blackguard
   • c. 186 BCE, Plautus, Aulularia 2.4.42–47:

     [Pythodicus] […] sed uter vestrorum est celerior? memora mihi.
     [Anthrax] Ego, et multo melior. [Pythodicus] Cocum ego, non furem rogo.
     [Anthrax] Cocum ergo dico. [Pythodicus] Quid tu ais? [Congrio] Sic sum ut vides.
     [Anthrax] Cocus ille nundinalest, in nonum diem
     solet ire coctum. [Congrio] Tun, trium litterarum homo,
     me vituperas? fur. [Anthrax] Etiam fur, trifurcifer.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (by extension) a robber-bee, a bee that steels honey from other beehives
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.109–111:

     Invitent croceis [apes] halantes floribus horti
     Et custos furum atque avium cum falce saligna
     Hellespontiaci servet tutela Priapi.

     May gardens bright, fragrant with flower, lure them [the bees] and Hellespontian Priap with his willow scythe the robbing bee and the birds keep away.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: fur
  • Romanian: fur
• Italian: furo, fuio
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: fura, furó
  • Occitan: fura
• ⇒ Late Latin: fūrō, fūrōnis (“thief”)
  • Old Italian: furone
  • Old French: fuiron (< *fūriō)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: foron
    • Fala: furón
    • Galician: furón
    • Portuguese: furão
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: hurón
  • →⇒ Central Franconian: Fürner (< *fūriō)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *furittum (“petty thief”)
  • Italian: furetto
  • Occitan: furet, huret, fura
  • Old French: furet, firet, furret
    • French: furet
      • → Middle Dutch: furet, fret
        • Dutch: fret
        • → German: Frett, Frettchen
          • → Finnish: fretti
    • → Middle English: furet, ferret
      • Scots: ferret
      • English: ferret
  • Romansh: furet
  • Sicilian: furittu

参考

• homo trium litterarum (euphemism for fur, literally “man of three letters”)

参照

• “fur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fur", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fur”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “fur”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers