-ure

suffix forming:
1 nouns of action or process (censure; closure; seizure).
2 nouns of result (creature; scripture).
3 collective nouns (legislature; nature).
4 nouns of function (judicature; ligature).
Etymology: from or after OF -ure f. L -ura

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\\_ə(r), ˌ(y)u̇(ə)r, -u̇ə\ noun suffix (-s)

Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -ura

1. : act : process : being

tubulature

exposure

composure

2.

a. : office : function

judicature

b. : body for (such) an activity

legislature

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an abstract-noun suffix of action, result, and instrument, occurring in loanwords from French and Latin: pressure; legislature.

[ < F -ure < L -ura]

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-ure /-ūr/

suffix

1. Forming nouns denoting: action, process or result

2. Office or function

ORIGIN: L -ura

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-ure,

suffix added to verbs to form nouns.

1. the act or fact of _____ ing: »

Failure = the act of failing.

2. the condition of being _____ ed: »

Pleasure = the condition of being pleased.

3. the result of being _____ ed: »

Exposure = the result of being exposed.

4. something that _____ s: »

Legislature = something that legislates.

5. a thing that is _____ ed: »

Disclosure = a thing that is disclosed.

6. other special meanings, as in procedure, sculpture, denture.

╂[< French -ure < Latin -ūra, or directly < Latin]

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suffix forming nouns

1) denoting an action, process, or result

censure | closure | scripture

2) denoting an office or function

judicature

3) denoting a collective

legislature

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Origin:

from Old French -ure, from Latin -ura

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noun suffix

1 : act : process

exposure

failure

closure

2 : a group of people who do a specified job or activity

legislature

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-ure suffix

(in nouns) the action, process or result of

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closure

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failure

 

Word Origin:

[-ure] from Old French -ure, from Latin -ura.

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-ure

(jʊə(r))

a suffix, repr. F. -ure, L. -ūra (hence It., Sp., Pg. -ura), occurring in many words of F. or L. origin. In L. -ūra primarily denoted action or process, hence result of this, office, etc.; after further development in F., the use was extended in Eng., and denoted action or process, the result or product of this (e.g. enclosure, figure, picture, scripture), function, state, rank, dignity, or office (e.g. judicature, prefecture, prelature), a collective body (e.g. legislature), that by which the action is effected (e.g. clausure, closure, ligature, nouriture), etc. Many words were adopted from F. at an early date, as figure (a 1225–), scripture (a 1300–), nouriture (c 1374–), censure, closure, investiture, juncture, pressure, tonsure (1380–), fissure, scissure (c 1400–), etc.; while a few others, as clausure (1398), plicature (1578), mercature (a 1620), aperture (1649–), were directly adapted from L. The suffix was also added to Eng. stems of L. origin, giving composure (1599–), disposure (1569–), exposure (1605–), or to true L. stems, whence vomiture (1598), † beneplaciture (1662), ructure (1657–69), unigeniture (1659–); and was further used with stems of Romance origin, as in † bankrupture (1617–22), † disembogure (1653), † praisure (1622), and with native or other bases, as in † clefture (1545, 1596), † raisure (1613, 1677), and wafture (1601–).

To this form various F. suffixes (as -eure, -ir, -or, -our) have been assimilated in Eng., as in pleasure, soilure, † trap(p)ure (trapper n.¹), treasure, velure.