duro

• dur

Akin to Spanish duro, from Latin dūrus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈduɾo/
• Syllabification: du‧ro
• Rhymes: -uɾo

duro (feminine dura, masculine plural duros, feminine plural duras)

1. hard

• “duro”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

duro

1. first-person singular present indicative of durar

Borrowed from Spanish duro.

duro m (plural duros)

1. (colloquial, historical) coin worth 5 pesetas

duro

1. first-person singular present indicative of durar

• “duro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

From Old Galician-Portuguese duro, from Latin dūrus, from Proto-Italic *dūros, from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long”), from *dweh₂- (“far, long”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Sanskrit दूर (dūrá, “distant, far, long”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈduɾʊ]

duro (feminine dura, masculine plural duros, feminine plural duras)

1. hard; rigid

   Antonyms: brando, mol

2. tough, harsh

   John Wayne representaba o arquetípico tipo duro ― John Wayne played the archetypical tough guy part

3. hard, tough (difficult)

   Synonym: difícil

   • 2019 August 13, Ruth Fernández, “A lembranza dos avós”, in Galicia Hoxe‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 October 2019:

     É moi duro dicir adeus, ese adeus para sempre que desgarra o corazón.

     It's very hard to say goodbye, that goodbye forever that breaks your heart.

• durar
• dureza

duro

1. hard (with much force or effort)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “duro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “duro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “duro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “duro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “duro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• “duro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

duro

1. first-person singular present indicative of durar

From Latin dūrus, from Proto-Italic *dūros, from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long”), from *dweh₂- (“far, long”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Sanskrit दूर (dūrá, “distant, far, long”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ro/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uro
• Hyphenation: dù‧ro

duro (feminine dura, masculine plural duri, feminine plural dure, superlative durissimo)

1. hard
2. tough, harsh
3. stringy (of food)
4. full-size
5. (vulgar, slang, referring to a penis) erect

• sodo
• solido
• turgido
• dritto
• eretto

• molle
• morbido
• moscio
• flaccido

• durare
• durezza

duro

1. first-person singular present indicative of durare

duro m (plural duri)

1. hardness

• udrò

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈduː.roː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪uː.ro]

From dūrus (“hard”) +‎ -ō (denominative).

dūrō (present infinitive dūrāre, perfect active dūrāvī, supine dūrātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to harden, make hard

   Synonym: obdūrō

   Antonyms: lēniō, dēlēniō, commītigō, mītigō, levō, allevō, alleviō

2. (intransitive) to last or endure

   Synonyms: maneō, cōnsistō, obdūrō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.207:

     Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.

     Endure, and preserve yourselves for better things.

3. to dry

   Synonyms: siccō, coquō

   Antonyms: rigō, imbuō, perfundō

4. (Medieval Latin) to extend (to)
5. (transitive) to make insensible, dull, blunt
6. (transitive) to bear, endure, resist

   Synonyms: tolerō, sufferō, perferō, sustineō, admittō, perpetior, subeō, recipiō, accipiō, sinō, patiō, sustentō, ferō

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• dūrātiō
• ēdūrō
• indūrō
• obdūrō

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dūrō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of dūrus

• “duro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “duro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "durare", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• duro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “durable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC..

• Rhymes: -uɾu
• Hyphenation: du‧ro

From Old Galician-Portuguese duro, from Latin dūrus, from Proto-Italic *dūros, from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long”), from *dweh₂- (“far, long”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Sanskrit दूर (dūrá, “distant, far, long”).

duro (feminine dura, masculine plural duros, feminine plural duras, comparable, comparative mais duro, superlative o mais duro or duríssimo)

1. hard (resistant to pressure; not soft)
   • 1910, João Simões Lopes Neto, “No mais duro pau d'espinho”, in Cancioneiro Guasca:

     No mais duro pau d'espinho / Nasce uma rosa fragrante, / Quem não tem peito valoroso / Não conquista a lei de amante.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. hard (difficult; not easy)
   • 1899, Machado de Assis, chapter XX, in Dom Casmurro‎^[2], Obliqpress, published 2013:

     Era muito duro subir uma ladeira de joelhos; devia feril-os por força. A Terra-Santa ficava muito longe. As missas eram numerosas, podiam empenhar-me outra vez a alma....

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1927, Humberto de Campos, “O escravo coroado”, in O Brasil Anedótico:

     — Ah, meu senhor grande, — lamentava-se o mísero, — como é duro ser escravo!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. unrelenting, unfriendly, severe, brutal, harsh
   • 1890, Aluizio Azevedo, O Cortiço, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier:

     Proprietário e estabelecido por sua conta, o rapaz atirou-se à labutação ainda com mais ardor, possuindo-se de tal delírio de enriquecer, que afrontava resignado as mais duras provações.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 13th c., “Don Beeito, home duro”, João Airas de Santiago (lyrics)‎^[3]:

     Don Beeito, home duro, / foi beijar pelo obscuro / a mia senhor.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (Brazil, colloquial) broke, penniless (with little or no money)

   Synonyms: limpo, liso, teso

5. (colloquial, of a penis) erect

• duramente

• durar
• dureza

duro (comparable, comparative mais duro, superlative o mais duro)

1. hard

   Ele trabalha duro.

   He works hard.

• “duro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “duro”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “duro”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “duro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “duro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “duro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

duro

1. first-person singular present indicative of durar

• “duro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈduɾo/ [ˈd̪u.ɾo]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uɾo
• Syllabification: du‧ro

Inherited from Old Spanish duro, from Latin dūrus, from Proto-Italic *dūros, from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (“long”), from *dweh₂- (“far, long”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δηρός (dērós, “long”), Sanskrit दूर (dūrá, “distant, far, long”). Compare English dour & English durable.

duro (feminine dura, masculine plural duros, feminine plural duras, superlative durísimo)

1. hard

   Antonym: blando

2. firm, solid
3. hard, difficult
4. tough, resilient, strong
5. harsh, cruel, severe
6. unbearable, heavy
7. rude, offensive
8. mean, stingy, ungenerous
9. rough, uncouth
10. stiff, rigid
11. (of a penis or person with a penis) hard, erect
12. (cooking) hard-boiled
13. (slang) hardcore
14. (pornography) hardcore
15. (Mexico) drunk, tipsy

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borracho

duro m (plural duros)

1. hardball (i.e. a no-nonsense attitude)
3. (Spain, colloquial, historical) coin worth 5 pesetas

   Coordinate term: pela

• faltar el canto de un duro (“to be a close shave, to be a close call”)
• no importar lo duro, no importar cuan duro (“no matter how hard”)
• nadie da duros a pesetas (“you get what you pay for”)
• jugar duro (“to play hardball”)

• → Catalan: duro

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

duro

1. first-person singular present indicative of durar

• “duro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• rudo, urdo

Compare turo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈduɾoʔ/ [ˈd̪uː.ɾoʔ]
• Rhymes: -uɾoʔ
• Syllabification: du‧ro

durò (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜇᜓ)

1. act of pricking something with a pin (or another pointed instrument)

   Synonyms: pagduro, pagtusok, pagturok

2. puncture; prick (made by a sharp point)
3. poking with one's finger (especially with condescension)
4. (figurative) condescension toward someone (especially accompanied by finger-pointing)

• dúó (Oǹdó)

• IPA^(key): /dú.ɾó/

dúró

1. (intransitive) to wait

   Ìyá mi ń dúró dè wọ́n. ― My mum's waiting for them.

2. (intransitive) to stay

   Lásìkò kòrónà yìí a gbọ́dọ̀ dúró sílé. ― In these corona times we must stay at home.

3. (intransitive) to stand

   Ó dúró bí igi. ― It stood like a tree.

   Òdòdó róòsù dúró fún ìfẹ́. ― The rose stands for love.

• used with dè (for)

• dá dúró
• ìdúró
• dúró ṣinṣin
• dúró gbọn-in gbọn-in