furfur

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin furfur (“bran”), reduplication of *fur, from *gʰur-, metathesis of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *gʰrus- (compare Lithuanian grū́sti (“to grind (barley)”), Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs, “skin, husk”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːfə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfɝfɚ/

Noun

furfur (usually uncountable, plural furfures)

1. (archaic, countable) a particle of dandruff
2. (archaic, uncountable) dandruff
   • 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:

     ‘Aye,’ said WS, still in bed, scratching his baldness, examining the furfur in his fingernails.

Translations

dandruff

• Bulgarian: пърхот m (pǎrhot)
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• Russian: пе́рхоть (ru) f (pérxotʹ)

Anagrams

• furrfu

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Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰur-

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfur.fur/, [ˈfʊrfʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfur.fur/, [ˈfurfur]

Noun

furfur m (genitive furfuris); third declension

1. bran, husks of grain
2. scaly infection of the skin

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	furfur	furfurēs
Genitive	furfuris	furfurum
Dative	furfurī	furfuribus
Accusative	furfurem	furfurēs
Ablative	furfure	furfuribus
Vocative	furfur	furfurēs

Derived terms

• furfurāceus
• furfurāculum
• furfurārius
• furfureus
• furfuriō
• furfurōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: fúrfur
• English: furfur, furfuraceous
• Italian: forfora

References

• “furfur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• furfur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.