-tura

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tura"

Italian

Alternative forms

  • -atura

Etymology

From Latin -tūra.

Suffix

-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”)

Derived terms

Italian terms suffixed with -tura

See also

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Suffix

-tūra f (genitive -tūrae); first declension

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

Usage notes

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

First-declension noun.

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

Synonyms

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -tura

Descendants

References

  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
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