-tura

See also: tura, Tura, túra, türa, tură, turą, -turã, and -tură

Italian

Alternative forms

-atura

Etymology

From Latin -tūra.

Suffix

-tura

-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

Anagrams

Artù, Ruta, Traù, ruta, urta

Latin

Alternative forms

-sūra

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

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtuː.ra/, [ˈt̪uːrä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.ra/, [ˈt̪uːrä]

Suffix

-tūra f (genitive -tūrae); first declension

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

-tiō, -tus

Related terms

-ūra

Derived terms

Latin terms suffixed with -tura

Descendants

Aromanian: -turã
Asturian: -dura
Catalan: -dura, -ura
Francoprovençal: -ura
French: -ure, -ture
- → English: -ure, -ture
Friulian: -dure
Italian: -tura
Romanian: -tură
Sicilian: -tura
Spanish: -dura
Portuguese -dura, -tura
Venetian: -dura, -ura, -ùra,

References

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

[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