furor

• furore
• furour (obsolete)

From Middle English furour, from Middle French fureur, from Old French furor, from Latin furor, from furō (“I rage, I am out of my mind”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊəɹɚ/, /ˈfjɝɚ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊərɔː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʊəɹə(ɹ)
• Homophone: Führer

furor (countable and uncountable, plural furors)

1. A general uproar or commotion.
2. Violent anger or frenzy.
3. A state of intense excitement.

   The story of the princess's affair caused a furor among journalists.

• furor uterinus
• fury

Borrowed from Latin furōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [fuˈɾor]

furor m or (archaic or poetic) f (plural furors)

1. furor, frenzy
2. (figurative) rage, craze

• fer furor

• fúria
• furiós

• “furor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “furor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “furor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

From fūr (“thief”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.rɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.ror]

fūror (present infinitive fūrārī, perfect active fūrātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to steal, plunder
2. to take away by stealth, remove secretly, to withdraw

• fūrāx

• fūr
• fūrtim
• fūrtum
• fūrtīvus

• Aromanian: fur, furari
• Istro-Romanian: furå
• Italian: furare
• Romanian: fura, furare
• Sardinian: furai
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fūricāre
  • Italian: frugare

From furō (“I rage, I am out of my mind”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfʊ.rɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.ror]

furor m (genitive furōris); third declension

1. frenzy, fury, rage, raving, insanity, madness, passion
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.150:

     iamque facēs et saxa volant: furor arma ministrat

     [A crowd of people riots,] and before long, firebrands and rocks are flying: fury supplies weapons.
     (In other words, an impassioned mob, though seemingly unarmed, nevertheless finds destructive uses for things: “saxa” become “arma.”)

Third-declension noun.

• furō

• “furor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “furor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• furor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make some one furious: impellere aliquem in furorem
    
  • to become furious: furore inflammari, incendi
    
  • in a transport of rage: furore incensus, abreptus, impulsus
    
• “furor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin furōrem.

• Homophones: furou, furô (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: fu‧ror

furor m (plural furores)

1. furor (general uproar or commotion)
2. furor; frenzy (state of intense excitement)

   Synonyms: frenesi, azáfama

3. fury (extreme anger)

   Synonyms: fúria, ira, cólera

For quotations using this term, see Citations:furor.

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

From Latin furor.

• IPA^(key): /fuˈɾoɾ/ [fuˈɾoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: fu‧ror

furor m (plural furores)

1. fury, rage

   Synonym: rabia

2. frenzy

   Synonym: frenesí

• “furor”, 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

furor

1. indefinite plural of fura