censura

See also: censùra and censurá

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [sənˈsu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [senˈsu.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: cen‧su‧ra

Noun

censura f (plural censures)

1. censorship

Related terms

• censor

Further reading

• “censura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “censura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “censura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “censura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology 2

Verb

censura

1. inflection of censurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.sy.ʁa/

• Audio

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• Homophone: censuras

Verb

censura

1. third-person singular past historic of censurer

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin cēnsūra.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cen‧su‧ra

Noun

censura f (plural censuras)

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Further reading

• “censura” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Etymology 2

Verb

censura

1. inflection of censurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃenˈsu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: cen‧sù‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.

Noun

censura f (plural censure)

1. censorship

   Synonyms: controllo, critica

2. censure

Derived terms

• autocensura

Related terms

• autocensura
• censore
• censorio
• censurare

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

censura

1. inflection of censurare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• censura in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• censura in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• censura in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• censura in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• censura in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• censura in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• censura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From cēnseō +‎ -tūra. Furthermore the outcome of censor +‎ -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kenˈsuː.ra/, [kẽːˈs̠uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃenˈsu.ra/, [t͡ʃenˈsuːrä]

Noun

cēnsūra f (genitive cēnsūrae); first declension

1. The office of a censor; censorship
2. censure, judgment, criticism, opinion
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.69–70:

     ‘verba quis audēret cōram sene digna rubōre
     dīcere? cēnsūram longa senecta dabat.’

     ‘‘[Back then] who, in the presence of an older man, would dare to speak words fit to blush? Old age was granted censure.’’
     (The muse Urania is speaking about a former time. Here, ‘‘censuram’’ may mean informal ‘‘censure,’’ or could refer to formal ‘‘censorship’’ by a senior official elected as a Roman censor.)

3. a severe judgment
4. appraisal, oversight, control

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cēnsūra	cēnsūrae
Genitive	cēnsūrae	cēnsūrārum
Dative	cēnsūrae	cēnsūrīs
Accusative	cēnsūram	cēnsūrās
Ablative	cēnsūrā	cēnsūrīs
Vocative	cēnsūra	cēnsūrae

Descendants

• → English: censure
• → French: censure
• → Italian: censura
• → Portuguese: censura
• → Romanian: cenzură
• → Russian: цензу́ра (cenzúra)
• → Spanish: censura

References

• “censura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “censura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• censura 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)
• censura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to perform the censors' duties: censuram agere, gerere
    
• “censure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sẽˈsu.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cen‧su‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.

Noun

censura f (uncountable)

1. censure
2. censorship

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

censura

1. inflection of censurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “censura” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “censura” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “censura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “censura” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “censura” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “censura” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θenˈsuɾa/ [θẽnˈsu.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /senˈsuɾa/ [sẽnˈsu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cen‧su‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.

Noun

censura f (plural censuras)

1. censure
2. censorship

Derived terms

• autocensura
• censura de cuentas
• censurar
• moción de censura
• voto de censura

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

censura

1. inflection of censurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “censura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014