different between stur vs sour

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

stur (third-person singular simple present sturs, present participle sturring, simple past and past participle sturred)

1. (largely obsolete) Alternative spelling of stir

Anagrams

• RTUs, Rust, UTRs, rust, ruts, turs

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• sturu

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Latin stylus, stilus. Compare Romanian stur. Cf. also Albanian shtyllë.

Noun

stur n

1. pillar, column
2. post

Derived terms

• sturusescu

See also

• stil, durec

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin st?re, present active infinitive of st?.

Verb

stur (past participle stut)

1. to be, it's past participle is used as an auxiliary verb with saite

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *st?raz. Cognate with Swedish stor.

Adjective

stur

1. big, large

Antonyms

• litn

German

Etymology

Via German Low German st?r from Middle Low German st?r, st?re. The word is first attested in standard German in the 19th century, but speedily became part of the core vocabulary. Cognate with Dutch stoer (itself a form of dialectal origin), Swedish stursk and with Old High German st?r, st?ri, stiuri (“strong, big, stately, proud”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu???/
• Rhymes: -u???

Adjective

stur (comparative sturer, superlative am stursten)

1. stubborn

Declension

Synonyms

• dickköpfig
• eigensinnig

Derived terms

• Sturheit
• Sturkopf

Related terms

• Steuer

Further reading

• “stur” in Duden online

Norn

Etymology

From Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *st?raz.

Adjective

stur

1. big
2. tall

Romanian

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Latin stylus, stilus.

Noun

stur m (plural sturi)

1. (rare, dated) icicle
2. (rare, dated, regional) low quality salt that is disposed of
3. (rare, dated, regional) soot, lampblack
4. (rare, dated, regional) slag, dross

Declension

Synonyms

• (icicle): ?ur?ur
• (soot): funingine
• (slag): zgur?

English

Alternative forms

• sower, sowre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sour, from Old English s?r (“sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *s?r, from Proto-Germanic *s?raz (“sour”), from Proto-Indo-European *súHros (“sour”). Cognate with West Frisian soer, Dutch zuur (“sour”), Low German suur, German sauer (“sour”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian sur, French sur (“sour”), Faroese súrur (“sour”), Icelandic súr (“sour, bitter”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sa?(?)?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sa??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Adjective

sour (comparative sourer, superlative sourest)

1. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
   • 2018 May 16, Adam Rogers, Wired, "The Fundamental Nihilism of Yanny vs. Laurel":

     A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.

2. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.

3. Tasting or smelling rancid.

4. (of a person's character) Peevish or bad-tempered.
5. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.

6. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.

7. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
8. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.

Antonyms

• (petroleum): sweet

Derived terms

• go sour
• sourly
• sourness

Translations

Noun

sour (countable and uncountable, plural sours)

1. The sensation of a sour taste.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
4. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
5. The acidic solution used in souring fabric.

Derived terms

• laundry sour

Translations

Verb

sour (third-person singular simple present sours, present participle souring, simple past and past participle soured)

1. (transitive) To make sour.

2. (intransitive) To become sour.
   • 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing my Poems

     So the sun's heat, with different powers, / Ripens the grape, the liquor sours.

3. (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
   • He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.

4. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.

5. (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)

6. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.
7. (transitive) To process (fabric) after bleaching, using hydrochloric acid or sulphuric acid to wash out the lime.

Derived terms

• besour
• unsour

Translations

Anagrams

• Ruso, ours

French

Adjective

sour (feminine singular soure, masculine plural sours, feminine plural soures)

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of sûr

Preposition

sour

1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of sur

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English s?r

Alternative forms

• sower, soure, sowre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?r/

Adjective

sour

1. sour, acidic, bitter
2. foul-smelling, rancid
3. fermented, curdled
4. unpleasant, unattractive

Descendants

• English: sour
• Scots: sour

Etymology 2

From Old French essorer.

Verb

sour

1. Alternative form of soren (“to soar”)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sora

Etymology

From Latin soror, from Proto-Indo-European *swés?r.

Noun

sour f (plural sours)

1. (Puter, Vallader) sister

Coordinate terms

• (in terms of gender):
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) frar
  • (Puter) frer