fetura

Latin

Etymology

From an unattested verb based on the Indo-European root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suckle, nurse”), which is rendered as fē- in Latin, and -tūra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /feːˈtuː.ra/, [feːˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈtu.ra/, [feˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

fētūra f (genitive fētūrae); first declension

1. bearing of young, breeding
2. offspring, brood

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fētūra	fētūrae
genitive	fētūrae	fētūrārum
dative	fētūrae	fētūrīs
accusative	fētūram	fētūrās
ablative	fētūrā	fētūrīs
vocative	fētūra	fētūrae

References

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