Jura

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See also: jura, jurá, jūra, jūrā, and jūrą

English

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Location of Jura (département) in France
Location of Jura (canton) in Switzerland
Jura (island) in Scotland from the air

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin *iuris, a Latinized form of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish *iuris (“wooded mountain”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Celtic *jor (“forest”).

Proper noun

Jura

  1. The Jura Mountains, a mountain range on the border of France and Switzerland, extending into Germany.
    • 1862, Author not identified, The Fir-Tree of the Jura, The Fir-Tree of the Jura and Other Stories, Oliphants Juvenile Series, page 7,
      On one of the western slopes of the Jura, looking towards France, stood the feudal mansion of Grammont.
  2. A département of France. [Created 1790.]
  3. A canton of Switzerland. [Created 1979.]
    • 2004, Jan Oskar Engene, Terrorism in Western Europe: Explaining the Trends Since 1950, page 158,
      This parallel is the Jura conflict. While the cantonal structure in Switzerland largely follows linguistic lines, the predominantly French-speaking Jura had for a long time until recently been a part of the German-speaking canton of Bern.
  4. An island in the inner Hebrides of Scotland.
    • 1839, Jura, entry in Thomas Curtis (editor), The London Encyclopaedia, page 275,
      Between the north end of Jura and the small isle of Skarba there is a famous whirlpool, called Cory-vrekan, from Brecan, son of a king of Denmark, who perished in this gulph.

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Translations

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See also

Anagrams

Czech

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Jura m

  1. (dialectal) a diminutive of the male given name Jiří

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin *iuris, a Latinized form of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish *iuris (“wooded mountain”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Celtic *yor- (“forest”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʒy.ʁa/
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Proper noun

Jura ?

  1. Jura (département)
  2. Jura (Canton)
  3. Jura (island)

German

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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  1. Jura Mountains
  2. Jura (a region of France)
  3. Jura (a canton of Switzerland)
  4. Jura (island in the inner Hebrides of Scotland)
  5. the Jurassic
Declension

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See also

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin iūra, nominative plural of iūs (“law, right”).

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* www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Jura_Rechtswissenschaft_Fach and www.dwds.de/wb/Jura#2 state it's used without article and give no gender or inflection
* www.canoo.net/Jura?lookup=caseSensitive states it's neuter plural of Jus. www.zeno.org/Brockhaus-1911/A/Jura is similar.
* de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jura#Substantiv,_n is different from this entry too - though usually incorrect too
* books.google.com/books?id=25dFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA156&dq=Jura , books.google.com/books?id=ashFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1156&dq=Jura , books.google.com/books?id=4SRaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP869&dq=Jura (?)
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Noun

Jura m (genitive Juras, no plural)

  1. law (study)
    Ich habe Jura studiert. ― I studied law.
Usage notes
  • Normally used without article.
  • Often used in Jura studieren.
Declension

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Synonyms

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Jȕra m

  1. a male given name

Proper noun

Júra f

  1. (geology) Jurassic, the time period from 200 to 145 million years ago
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