-tura

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Etymology

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From Latin -tūra.

Suffix

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-tura

  1. -ing; -tion; -ure
    1. added to form nouns of mass or collection
      attrezzo (tool) + ‎-tura → ‎attrezzatura (equipment)
      fogna (sewer) + ‎-tura → ‎fognatura (sewage system)
      magistrato (magistrate) + ‎-tura → ‎magistratura (magistracy)
    2. added to verbs form nouns relating to their action
      fiori (flowers) + ‎-tura → ‎fioritura (flowering, blooming)

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Somewhat uncertain, but appears to be from Proto-Indo-European *-tew- + *-r-eh₂. Note however that some cases are built on agentives in -tōr: e.g. cēnsūra, gladiātūra.[1] Resemblance to the future active participle -tūrus and archaic infinitive -tūrum is evidently accidental, though substantivizations like futūrus may have reinforced the use of -tūra.

Productive in earlier Latin but gradually overtaken by -tiō.

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-tūra f (genitive -tūrae); first declension

  1. Used to form action nouns expressing concrete results as well as activities: -ing, -ure

Usage notes

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The suffix -tūra is added to the supine form of a verb to create a first-declension noun naming the verb's action or the result of that action.

Examples:
pictūra (painting, picture), from pictum, supine of pingō (I paint)
scrīptūra (a writing, act of writing), from scrīptum, supine of scrībō (I write)

The suffix -tūra resembles the feminine form of (but may not be related to) the future active participle ending -tūrus, which describes impending or imminent action (e.g. pictūrus "about to paint"; scrīptūrus "on the point of writing").

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative -tūra -tūrae
Genitive -tūrae -tūrārum
Dative -tūrae -tūrīs
Accusative -tūram -tūrās
Ablative -tūrā -tūrīs
Vocative -tūra -tūrae

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References

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  1. ^ Miller, D. Gary (2006) Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English: and their Indo-European Ancestry, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 3.9 -tūra/-sūra (> E -ture/-sure), pages 118–119