# sutura
## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [suˈtu.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [suˈtu.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa

#### Noun

sutura f (plural sutures)
* suture

##### Related terms

* suturar

#### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

sutura
* inflection of suturar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: suturas, suturât

### Verb

sutura
* third-person singular past historic of suturer

## Galician
### Verb

sutura
* inflection of suturar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra (“suture”) (probably a borrowing), from suō (“sew, join or tack together”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suˈtu.ra/
* Rhymes: -ura
* Hyphenation: su‧tù‧ra

### Noun

sutura f (plural suture)
* (surgery) suture, stitch
* (anatomy) suture

#### Derived terms

* sutura lambdoidea
* suturare

## Latin
### Etymology

From suō (“sew, join or tack together”) +‎ -tūra.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /suːˈtuː.ra/, [s̠uːˈt̪uːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /suˈtu.ra/, [suˈt̪uːrä]

### Noun

sūtūra f (genitive sūtūrae); first declension
* a sewing together; seam, stitch, suture

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* suō
* sūtēla
* sūtilis
* sūtor
* sūtōrīcius
* sūtōrius
* sūtrīballus
* sūtrīna
* sūtrīnum
* sūtrīnus
* sūtrīx
* sūtum

#### Descendants

* Catalan: sutura
* English: suture
* French: suture
* Italian: sutura
* Portuguese: sutura
* Spanish: sutura

### References

* “sutura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “sutura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* sutura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suˈtu.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -uɾɐ
* Hyphenation: su‧tu‧ra

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra (“suture”).

#### Noun

sutura f (plural suturas)
* suture (seam formed by sewing two edges (especially of skin) together)

##### Related terms

* suturar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

sutura
* inflection of suturar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French suturer.

### Verb

a sutura (third-person singular present suturează, past participle suturat) 1st conjugation
* (transitive, surgery) to sew up, stitch up, suture

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /suˈtuɾa/ [suˈt̪u.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: su‧tu‧ra

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suō (“sew, join or tack together”).

#### Noun

sutura f (plural suturas)
* suture

##### Derived terms

* sutura lambdoidea

##### Related terms

* suturar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

sutura
* inflection of suturar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “sutura”, 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

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sutura.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /suˈtuɾa/ [sʊˈt̪uː.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: su‧tu‧ra

### Noun

sutura (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜆᜓᜇ)
* surgical stitch
* surgical silk thread for suturing