different between fur vs countervair

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English furre, forre, from Anglo-Norman forre, fuerre (“a case; sheath”), from Frankish *f?dar, from Proto-West Germanic *f?dr, from Proto-Germanic *f?dr? (“sheath”) (compare Old English f?dor (“sheaf”), Dutch voering (“lining”), German Futter (“lining”), Gothic ???????????????? (f?dr, “sheath”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?-, *poh?- (“to protect”) (compare Lithuanian piemu? (“protection”), Ancient Greek ??? (pôu, “flock”), ???? (pôma, “lid”), ?????? (poim?n, “shepherd”), Old Armenian ?????? (hawran, “herd, flock”), Northern Kurdish pawan (“to watch over”), Sanskrit ???? (p?ti, “he watches, protects”).

The verb is from Middle English furren, from Anglo-Norman furrer, forrer, fourrer (“to line, stuff, fill”), from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??(?)/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [f???]
• (General American) enPR: fûr, IPA^(key): /f?/, [f?]
  • (US)
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophone: fir

Noun

fur (countable and uncountable, plural furs)

1. The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
2. The hairy skin of an animal processed into clothing for humans.
   • November 17, 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter to the Countess of Mar

     wrapped up in my furs

3. A pelt used to make, trim or line clothing apparel.
4. A coating, lining resembling fur in function and/or appearance.
   1. A thick pile of fabric.
   2. The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
   3. The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
   4. The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
5. (heraldry) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures.
6. (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
7. A furry; a member of the furry subculture.
8. (vulgar, slang) Pubic hair.
9. (vulgar, slang) Sexual attractiveness.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fur (third-person singular simple present furs, present participle furring, simple past and past participle furred)

1. (transitive) To cover with fur or a fur-like coating.
2. (intransitive) To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating.
3. (transitive, construction) To level a surface by applying furring to it.

   Synonym: fur out

Derived terms

• furred

Translations

Etymology 2

Conjunction

fur

1. Pronunciation spelling of for, representing African-American Vernacular English.

Preposition

fur

1. Pronunciation spelling of for, representing African-American Vernacular English.

Anagrams

• urf

Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin f?r?, from Latin f?ror. Compare Romanian fura, fur.

Alternative forms

• furu, afur, afuru

Verb

fur (third-person singular present indicative furã, past participle furatã)

1. I steal.

Related terms

• furari / furare
• furat
• furtu

Etymology 2

From Latin f?r. Compare archaic Daco-Romanian fur.

Alternative forms

• furu, afur, afuru

Noun

fur m (plural furi)

1. thief, robber

Synonyms

• furcudar, haramiu, chisãgi, caceac

Catalan

Noun

fur m (plural furs)

1. fuero

Dalmatian

Verb

fur

1. Alternative form of facro

Conjugation

French

Etymology

From Latin forum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy?/

Noun

fur m (plural not attested)

1. Only used in au fur et à mesure (“to an equitable extent”)

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *f?r, from Proto-Indo-European *b??r, from the root *b?er- (“to carry”) (see fer?). Cognate with Ancient Greek ??? (ph?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fu?r/, [fu?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fur/, [fur]

Noun

f?r m or f (genitive f?ris); third declension

1. A thief

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• f?rt?vus (adjective)
• furtum (noun)
• f?rtim (adverb)
• f?ror (verb)

Descendants

• Aromanian: fur
• Italian: furo
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: fura, furó
  • Occitan: fura
• Romanian: fur
• ? Late Latin: f?r?, f?r?nis (“thief”)
  • Old French: fuiron
  • Old Portuguese: foron
    • Galician: furón
    • Portuguese: furão
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: hurón
• ? Vulgar Latin: *furittum (“petty thief”)
  • Italian: furetto
  • Occitan: furet, huret, fura
  • Old French: furet, firet, furret
    • French: furet
    • ? Middle English: furet, ferret
      • Scots: ferret
      • English: ferret
  • Romansch: furet
  • Sicilian: furittu

References

• fur in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fur in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• fur in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

• furi

Preposition

fur

1. for

References

• Altniederfränkischer Psalm 55

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fur/

Noun

fur f

1. genitive plural of fura

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin f?r, from Proto-Italic *f?r, from Proto-Indo-European *b??r, from the root *b?er- (“to carry”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fur]

Verb

fur

1. first-person singular present indicative of fura
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of fura

Noun

fur m (plural furi)

1. (archaic) thief

Synonyms

• ho?, bandit

Related terms

• fura
• furt

Somali

Verb

fur

1. open

Swedish

Alternative forms

• fure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??r/
• Rhymes: -??r

Noun

fur c (uncountable)

1. pinewood
2. (archaic) pine tree (in some areas chiefly about old trees)

Synonyms

• (wood): furu
• (tree): tall (if a distinction is made between this and "fur", this will be used about younger trees), fura

Related terms

• fura
• fure
• furu

Anagrams

• fru

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /v??r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /vi?r/

Noun

fur

1. Soft mutation of mur.

Mutation

English

Etymology

counter- +? vair

Noun

countervair (uncountable)

1. (heraldry) A heraldic fur resembling vair, except in the arrangement of the patches or figures

Translations

• Italian: controvaiato (it)

Anagrams

• recurvation, vant-courier