premura

Italian

Etymology 1

From premere (“to press”) +‎ -ura.

Noun

premura f (plural premure)

1. care, attention
2. urgency, hurry

Derived terms

• premurare

Descendants

• → Spanish: premura

Etymology 2

Verb

premura

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian premura. Doublet of prisa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈmuɾa/ [pɾeˈmu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: pre‧mu‧ra

Noun

premura f (plural premuras)

1. urgency, hurry

   Synonyms: urgencia, prisa

Further reading

• “premura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10