segur

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin sēcūrus. Compare Occitan segur, Spanish seguro, French sure.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /səˈɡu/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /seˈɡuɾ/

Adjective

segur (feminine segura, masculine plural segurs, feminine plural segures)

1. safe
2. secure
3. sure, certain

Derived terms

• de segur
• segurament

 

Related terms

• assegurar
• insegur
• seguretat

 

Further reading

• “segur” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese segur (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin secūris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈɣuɾ/

Noun

segur m (plural segures)

1. (now literary) axe
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:

     que nõ ficou deles nĩhũu senõ pouquos que nõ fosen hũus chagados et os outros degolados, et outros [con] grãdes feridas de lanças et cortos cõ segures, et outros chagados cõ seetas et cõ dardos

     and there were but few left that were not injured, others having their throat slit, others with large spear wounds and cut with axes, and others wounded with arrows and darts

Related terms

• segorella

References

• “segur” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “segur” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “segur” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin sēcūrus.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn)

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Adjective

segur m (feminine singular segura, masculine plural segurs, feminine plural seguras)

1. safe; secure
2. sure, certain

Derived terms

• segurament

Related terms

• seguretat

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin secūris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈɡuɾ/, [seˈɣ̞uɾ]

Noun

segur m (plural segures)

1. a small axe similar to or also fulfilling the function of an adze, a scythe, a fascis, or even a spokeshave

Related terms

• segadera
• segurón

Descendants

• → Andalusian Arabic: شُقُور‎ (šuqūṛ, “axe”)
• → Moroccan Arabic: شَاقُور‎ (šāqūṛ, šāqōṛ, “adze of a carpenter; hatchet”)
  • → Central Atlas Tamazight: šaquṛ (“axe”); pl. šwaq^wṛ
    • ⇒ Central Atlas Tamazight: tašaquṛt (“small axe, hatchet”); pl. tašaquṛin
• → Algerian Arabic: شَاقُور‎ (šāqūṛ, šāqōṛ, “adze of a carpenter; hatchet”)
  • • ⇒ Algerian Arabic: شَاقُورَة‎ (šāqūṛa, šāqōṛa, “small axe, hatchet”)
• → Tunisian Arabic: شَقُور ,شَاقُور‎ (šāqūr, šaqūr, “adze of a carpenter; hatchet”)
• → Egyptian Arabic: شَقُورَة‎ (šaʾūṛa, “adze for agricultural purposes”)

Further reading

• “Orígenes del segur”, in Armas y armaduras en España‎^[1], 2012-02-27

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Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh segur, from Proto-Brythonic *segʉr, from Latin sēcūrus. Doublet of sicr and siwr.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɡɨ̞r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈseːɡɪr/, /ˈsɛɡɪr/

Adjective

segur (feminine singular segur, plural segurion, equative cyn segur, comparative mwy segur, superlative mwyaf segur, not mutable)

1. idle