duro
Portuguese
/ˈdu.ɾu/
adj
Definitions
- hard (resistant to pressure; not soft)
- hard (difficult; not easy)
- (of a person) unrelenting; unfriendly; severe; brutal; harsh
- (colloquial) with little or no money; hard up, broke, tapped out
- (informal) erect
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese duro inherited from Latin dūrus (hard, rough, stern, harsh) inherited from Proto-Italic *dūros inherited from Proto-Indo-European *duh₂-ró-s (long, far).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*duh₂-ró-s
Gloss
long, far
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
長
Emoji
🤥 🦒
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dour English
- dourly English
- dourness English
- duresco Latin
- durissimus Latin
- duriter Latin
- duritia Latin
- durities Latin
- duro Latin
- durus Latin
- dūrus Latin
- duro Italian
- dur French
- duramente Spanish, Castilian
- duro Spanish, Castilian
- durísimo Spanish, Castilian
- δηρός Ancient Greek
- *deru- Proto-Indo-European
- *duh₂-ró-s Proto-Indo-European
- cu Portuguese
- duríssimo Portuguese
- kuduro Portuguese
- दूर Sanskrit
- दूरता Sanskrit
- दूरत्व Sanskrit
- दूरभाष Sanskrit
- दूरवाणी Sanskrit
- लेख Sanskrit
- dur Catalan, Valencian
- duro Galician
- dur Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- دور Persian
- โทร Thai
- โทรศัพท์ Thai
- โทรเลข Thai
- dur Welsh
- dû Norman
- duro Old Portuguese
- dūra Pali
- *duHrás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- dur Occitan
- *dūros Proto-Italic
- deir Romansh
- dir Romansh
- dür Romansh
- duru Asturian
- ទូរលេខ Central Khmer
- ទូរស័ព្ទ Central Khmer
- dour Scots
- dûr Friulian
- *duHrás Proto-Indo-Aryan
- dúr Middle Irish
- duro Old Spanish
- duru Sicilian
- duru Papiamentu
- 𑀤𑀽𑀭 Sauraseni Prakrit
- தூரம் Tamil
- dûo Ligurian
- doir Dalmatian
- ਦੂਰ Panjabi, Punjabi
- ದೂರ Kannada
- dur Romani
- duru Sardinian
- doûro Istriot
- *dwārós Proto-Hellenic
- dur Lombard
- dür Lombard
- ku Kimbundu