different between detour vs detur

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French détour, from détourner (“turn away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di?.t??(?)/, /?di?.t??(?)/

Noun

detour (plural detours)

1. A diversion or deviation from one's original route.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IX

     On the third day I made a detour westward to avoid the country of the Band-lu, as I did not care to be detained by a meeting with To-jo.

See also

• bypass
• roundabout

Translations

Verb

detour (third-person singular simple present detours, present participle detouring, simple past and past participle detoured)

1. (intransitive) To make a detour.
2. (transitive) To direct or send on a detour.

Translations

Anagrams

• Drouet, douter, redout, routed, toured

Middle English

Noun

detour

1. Alternative form of dettour

English

Etymology

Latin detur (“let it be given”).

Noun

detur (plural deturs)

1. (US, Harvard University) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.

Anagrams

• Erdut, RTUed, trued, udert

Latin

Verb

d?tur

1. third-person singular present passive subjunctive of d?