different between ume vs ure

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Japanese ? (ume).

Noun

ume (plural ume or umes)

1. Japanese apricot, a species of Asian plum, Prunus mume.

Translations

Anagrams

• EMU, MEU, emu, meu, mue

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *unbe, cognate with Aquitanian *umme.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /u.me/

Noun

ume anim

1. child

   Synonym: haur

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• sein

Further reading

• “ume” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “ume” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ume?/, [?ume?(?)]
• Rhymes: -ume
• Syllabification: u?me

Noun

ume

1. (dialectal) mist, fog

Declension

Synonyms

• usva

Anagrams

• emu

Japanese

Romanization

ume

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

ume

1. vocative singular of umus

Pipil

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *o?m?, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *wohay or *wokay or *wakay. Compare Classical Nahuatl ?me (“two”). Cognate with Yaqui woi (“two”) and Hopi lööyö' (“two”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?me/

Numeral

?me

1. two

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

ume (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. third-person singular present of umeti

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

-ume (declinable)

1. male

Inflection

Coordinate terms

• -ke

Derived terms

• Nominal derivations:
  • mume
  • mwanaume

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman *eure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre and opera.

Noun

ure (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, only in collocations in ure, out of ure) use, practise, exercise.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 2,^[1]

     I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre

   • c. 1611, George Chapman (translator), The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 17, p. 248,^[2]

     But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre

     That lies in vs;

   • 1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 ^[3]

     ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure

Derived terms

• inure

Verb

ure (third-person singular simple present ures, present participle uring, simple past and past participle ured)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37,^[4]

     […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]

Etymology 2

From Latin ?rus. Perhaps a doublet of owre.

Noun

ure (plural ures) (rare)

1. Synonym of aurochs

Usage notes

Ure-ox is more common; compare aurochs (ultimately from Old High German ?rohso, from ?ro (“aurochs”) + ohso (“ox”)).

Related terms

• aurochs, owre (perhaps related)
• urus

Anagrams

• ERU, EUR, Eur., Rue, eur-, eur., rue

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.r?/

Noun

ure

1. plural of uur

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ù??é/

Noun

ure (Kana spelling ??)

1. (anatomy) foot

   Synonym: cikiri

Ambai

Alternative forms

• uren
• ure?

Noun

ure

1. eye

Danish

Noun

ure n

1. indefinite plural of ur

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

ure

1. fire

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

ure

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Verb

?re

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?r?

Middle English

Determiner

ure

1. Alternative form of oure (“our”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• ?ser – Northumbrian or poetic

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?.re/

Determiner

?re

1. our

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: oure
  • English: our
    • Northumbrian: wor, oor
  • Scots: oor, wir

Pronoun

?re

1. genitive of w?: ours, of us

Rapa Nui

Noun

ure

1. penis

Usage notes

Largely considered archaic; replaced by a Tahitian term.