different between canton vs jura

English

Etymology 1

1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.

Alternative forms

• kanton

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæntn?/
• IPA^(key): /?kænt?n/ (especially in the flag sense)

Noun

canton (plural cantons)

2. A division of a political unit.
   • 1912, Joseph McCabe (translator), We Must Take Sides; or, The Principal of Action (originally by Voltaire)

     These three millions live in a small canton of Egypt which cannot maintain twenty thousand people

   • 20 May, 1686, Gilbert Burnet, letter from Nimmengen

   2. One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
   3. A subdivision of an arrondissement of France.
   4. A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
   5. (obsolete) A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township.
3. A small community or clan.
4. A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side (e.g., the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
6. (heraldry) A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.

Translations

Verb

canton (third-person singular simple present cantons, present participle cantoning, simple past and past participle cantoned)

1. (transitive) To delineate as a separate district.
2. (transitive) To divide into cantons.
3. (transitive) To allot quarters to troops.

Etymology 2

Noun

canton (plural cantons)

1. (obsolete) A song or canto.

Anagrams

• Conant, Nacton, cannot, noncat

French

Etymology

From Middle French canton, from Old French canton (from the 1240s), from Old Occitan canton (“corner; canton”) (recorded before 1218), adopted in Occitan from North Italian (Gallo-Italic, early Lombard) cantone (“edge, corner; canton”), ultimately representing Latin cant- (“rim (of a wheel)”) with the addition of the -? (accusative -?nem) suffix forming augmentatives in Romance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.t??/

Noun

canton m (plural cantons)

1. canton (of Switzerland, France or Luxembourg)
2. township (of Canada)
3. (heraldry) canton

Descendants

• ? German: Kanton

Further reading

• “canton” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Occitan

Etymology

From Gallo-Italic cantone. From canto + -one. Related to Latin canthus (“rim (of a wheel)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan?tu/

Noun

canton m (plural cantons)

1. corner
2. canton

Derived terms

• cantonal
• cantonar
• cantonada

Romanian

Etymology

From French canton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan?ton/

Noun

canton n (plural cantoane)

1. canton

Declension

Derived terms

• cantonal

Further reading

• canton in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Venetian

Noun

canton m (plural cantoni)

1. corner

Derived terms

• cantonzsin

Catalan

Verb

jura

1. third-person singular present indicative form of jurar
2. second-person singular imperative form of jurar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?jura]

Noun

jura f

1. (geology) Jurassic

Further reading

• jura in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• jura in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin i?ra, nominative plural of i?s (“law, right”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju?ra/, [?ju??]

Noun

jura c (singular definite juraen, not used in plural form)

1. law (the practice and profession of law)

Inflection

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.?a/

Verb

jura

1. third-person singular past historic of jurer

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese jurar.

Verb

jura

1. swear, promise

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN

Latin

Noun

j?ra

1. nominative plural of j?s
2. accusative plural of j?s
3. vocative plural of j?s

References

• jura in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• jura in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Latvian

Noun

jura f (4th declension)

1. Jurassic

Declension

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

jura n

1. definite plural of jur

Polish

Noun

jura f

1. Jurassic

Declension

Derived terms

• jurajski

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u.?a/
• Hyphenation: ju?ra
• Rhymes: -u?a

Noun

jura f (plural juras)

1. an oath

   Synonym: juramento

Verb

jura

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of jurar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of jurar

Interjection

jura?

1. really? (sarcastically indicating that something was obvious)

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin j?r?re, i?r?re, present active infinitive of i?r? (“swear or take an oath”), from Proto-Italic *jowez??, from Proto-Indo-European *h?yew-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?ra/

Verb

a jura (third-person singular present jur?, past participle jurat) 1st conj.

1. (transitive, reflexive) to swear; to vow

Conjugation

Synonyms

• a se f?g?dui
• a se jurui
• a sufle?i

Derived terms

• jurare

Related terms

• înjura
• jur?mânt
• jur?tor

Spanish

Etymology

From jurar (“to swear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xu?a/, [?xu.?a]

Noun

jura f (uncountable)

1. oath, swearing
2. (dated, slang, El Salvador) the police institution, especially the military police before the 1992 Peace Accords

   Synonym: (El Salvador, Northern Mexico) chota

Verb

jura

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of jurar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of jurar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of jurar.

Further reading

• “jura” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.