fuero

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin forum.

Noun

fuero (plural fueros)

1. A code; a charter; a grant of privileges.
2. A custom having the force of law.
3. A declaration by a magistrate.
4. A place where justice is administered.
5. The jurisdiction of a tribunal.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fuero”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• foure

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.e.roː/, [ˈfuɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.e.ro/, [ˈfuːero]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) fuerō

1. first-person singular future perfect active indicative of sum

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin forum. Doublet of foro.

Noun

fuero m (plural fueros)

1. charter
2. law, local law (especially in Navarra or the Basque Country)
3. (historical, Spain) law, laws
4. (historical) lawbook
5. privilege, a certain immunity
6. jurisdiction

Derived terms

• en su fuero interno