censura
See also: censùra and censurá
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin cēnsūra.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /sənˈsu.ɾə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /senˈsu.ɾa/
- Hyphenation: cen‧su‧ra
Noun
censura f (plural censures)
- censorship
Related terms
- censor
Further reading
- “censura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “censura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “censura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “censura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑ̃.sy.ʁa/
Audio (file) - Homophone: censuras
Verb
censura
- third-person singular past historic of censurer
Galician
Etymology
From Latin cēnsūra.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cen‧su‧ra
Noun
censura f (plural censuras)
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Further reading
- “censura” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈsu.ra/
- Rhymes: -ura
- Hyphenation: cen‧sù‧ra
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.
Noun
censura f (plural censure)
- censorship
- Synonyms: controllo, critica
- censure
Derived terms
- autocensura
Related terms
- autocensura
- censore
- censorio
- censurare
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
censura
- inflection of censurare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- censura in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- censura in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- censura in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- censura in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- censura in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- censura in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- censura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From cēnseō + -tūra.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kenˈsuː.ra/, [kẽːˈs̠uːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈsu.ra/, [t͡ʃenˈsuːrä]
Noun
cēnsūra f (genitive cēnsūrae); first declension
- The office of a censor; censorship
- censure, judgment, criticism, opinion
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.69-70:
- ‘verba quis audēret cōram sene dignā rubōre
dīcere? cēnsūram longā senectā dabat.’- ‘‘[Back then] who, in the presence of an older man, would dare to speak words fit to blush? Old age was granted censure.’’
(The muse Urania is speaking about a former time. Here, ‘‘censuram’’ may mean informal ‘‘censure,’’ or could refer to formal ‘‘censorship’’ by a senior official elected as a Roman censor.)
- ‘‘[Back then] who, in the presence of an older man, would dare to speak words fit to blush? Old age was granted censure.’’
- ‘verba quis audēret cōram sene dignā rubōre
- a severe judgment
- appraisal, oversight, control
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cēnsūra | cēnsūrae |
Genitive | cēnsūrae | cēnsūrārum |
Dative | cēnsūrae | cēnsūrīs |
Accusative | cēnsūram | cēnsūrās |
Ablative | cēnsūrā | cēnsūrīs |
Vocative | cēnsūra | cēnsūrae |
Descendants
- → English: censure
- → French: censure
- → Russian: цензу́ра (cenzúra)
- → Spanish: censura
References
- “censura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “censura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- censura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- censura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to perform the censors' duties: censuram agere, gerere
- to perform the censors' duties: censuram agere, gerere
- censure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sẽˈsu.ɾɐ/
- Rhymes: -uɾɐ
- Hyphenation: cen‧su‧ra
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.
Noun
censura f (uncountable)
- censure
- censorship
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
censura
- inflection of censurar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “censura” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “censura” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “censura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “censura” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “censura” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “censura” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈsuɾa/ [θẽnˈsu.ɾa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /senˈsuɾa/ [sẽnˈsu.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: cen‧su‧ra
Etymology 1
From Latin cēnsūra.
Noun
censura f (plural censuras)
- censure
- censorship
Derived terms
- autocensura
- censurar
- moción de censura
- voto de censura
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
censura
- inflection of censurar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “censura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014