# censura
## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [sənˈsu.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [senˈsu.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Hyphenation: cen‧su‧ra

#### Noun

censura f (plural censures)
* censorship

##### Related terms

* censor

#### Further reading

* “censura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “censura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “censura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “censura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

censura
* inflection of censurar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɑ̃.sy.ʁa/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: censuras

### Verb

censura
* third-person singular past historic of censurer

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /θenˈsuɾa/ [θenˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
* IPA: (standard) /θenˈsuɾa/ [θenˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
* IPA: (seseo) /senˈsuɾa/ [senˈsu.ɾɐ]
* IPA: /θɛnˈsuɾa/ [θɛnˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
* IPA: (standard) /θɛnˈsuɾa/ [θɛnˈs̺u.ɾɐ]
* IPA: (seseo) /sɛnˈsuɾa/ [sɛnˈsu.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Hyphenation: cen‧su‧ra

### Etymology 1

From Latin cēnsūra.

#### Noun

censura f (plural censuras)
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##### Further reading

* “censura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

censura
* inflection of censurar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃenˈsu.ra/
* Rhymes: -ura
* Hyphenation: cen‧sù‧ra

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.

#### Noun

censura f (plural censure)
* censorship
    Synonyms: controllo, critica
* censure

##### Derived terms

* autocensura

##### Related terms

* autocensura
* censore
* censorio
* censurare

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

censura
* inflection of censurare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* censura in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* censura in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* censura in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
* censura in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* censura in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* censura in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
* censura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From cēnseō +‎ -tūra. Furthermore the outcome of censor +‎ -tūra.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kenˈsuː.ra/, [kẽːˈs̠uːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /t͡ʃenˈsu.ra/, [t͡ʃenˈsuːrä]

### Noun

cēnsūra f (genitive cēnsūrae); first declension
* The office of a censor; censorship
* censure, judgment, criticism, opinion
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.69–70:‘verba quis audēret cōram sene digna rubōre dīcere? cēnsūram longa senecta dabat.’‘‘[Back then] who, in the presence of an older man, would dare to speak words fit to blush? Old age was granted censure.’’ (The muse Urania is speaking about a former time. Here, ‘‘censuram’’ may mean informal ‘‘censure,’’ or could refer to formal ‘‘censorship’’ by a senior official elected as a Roman censor.)
* a severe judgment
* appraisal, oversight, control

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* → Belarusian: цэнзу́ра (cenzúra)
* → Bulgarian: цѐнзура (cènzura)
* → Czech: cenzura
* → English: censure
* → Estonian: tsensuur
* → French: censure
** → Persian: سانسور (sânsur)
** → Turkish: sansür
* → German: Zensur
* → Hungarian: cenzúra
* → Italian: censura
* → Latvian: cenzūra
* → Lithuanian: cenzūra
* → Luxembourgish: Zensur
* → Macedonian: цензу́ра (cenzúra)
* → Occitan: censura
* → Polish: cenzura
* → Portuguese: censura
* → Romanian: cenzură
* → Russian: цензу́ра (cenzúra)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
** Cyrillic script: цензу́ра
** Latin script: cenzúra
* → Slovak: cenzúra
* → Slovene: cenzura
* → Spanish: censura
* → Ukrainian: цензу́ра (cenzúra)

### References

* “censura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “censura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* censura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* censura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to perform the censors' duties: censuram agere, gerere
* “censure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sẽˈsu.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -uɾɐ
* Hyphenation: cen‧su‧ra

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.

#### Noun

censura f (uncountable)
* censure
* censorship

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

censura
* inflection of censurar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “censura”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “censura”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “censura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “censura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “censura”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “censura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /θenˈsuɾa/ [θẽnˈsu.ɾa]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /senˈsuɾa/ [sẽnˈsu.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: cen‧su‧ra

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cēnsūra.

#### Noun

censura f (plural censuras)
* censure
* censorship

##### Derived terms

* autocensura
* censura de cuentas
* censurar
* moción de censura
* voto de censura

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

censura
* inflection of censurar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “censura”, 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