# furor
## English
### Alternative forms

* furore
* furour (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English furour, from Middle French fureur, from Old French furor, from Latin furor, from furō (“I rage, I am out of my mind”).

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈfjʊəɹɚ/, /ˈfjɝɚ/
* (UK) IPA: /ˈfjʊərɔː/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊəɹə(ɹ)
* Homophone: Führer

### Noun

furor (countable and uncountable, plural furors)
* A general uproar or commotion.
* Violent anger or frenzy.
* A state of intense excitement.
    The story of the princess's affair caused a furor among journalists.

#### Related terms

* furor uterinus
* fury

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin furōrem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [fuˈɾor]

### Noun

furor m or (archaic or poetic) f (plural furors)
* furor, frenzy
* (figurative) rage, craze

#### Derived terms

* fer furor

#### Related terms

* fúria
* furiós

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From fūr (“thief”) +‎ -ō.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfuː.ror/, [ˈfuːrɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfu.ror/, [ˈfuːror]

#### Verb

fūror (present infinitive fūrārī, perfect active fūrātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
* to steal, plunder
* to take away by stealth, remove secretly, to withdraw

##### Derived terms

* fūrāx

##### Related terms

* fūr
* fūrtim
* fūrtum
* fūrtīvus

##### Descendants

* Aromanian: fur, furari
* Istro-Romanian: furå
* Italian: furare
* Romanian: fura, furare
* Sardinian: furai
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fūricāre
** Italian: frugare

### Etymology 2

From furō (“I rage, I am out of my mind”) +‎ -or.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfu.ror/, [ˈfʊrɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfu.ror/, [ˈfuːror]

#### Noun

furor m (genitive furōris); third declension
* frenzy, fury, rage, raving, insanity, madness, passion
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.150:iamque facēs et saxa volant: furor arma ministrat[A crowd of people riots,] and before long, firebrands and rocks are flying: fury supplies weapons. (In other words, an impassioned mob, though seemingly unarmed, nevertheless finds destructive uses for things: “saxa” become “arma.”)

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Related terms

* furō

##### Descendants

* → Catalan: furor
* → Old French: furor
** Middle French: fureur
*** French: fureur
*** → Middle English: furour, fourour
**** English: furor (obsolete furour)
* → Galician: furor
* → Italian: furore
** → English: furore
** → German: Furore
** → Russian: фурор (furor)
* → Old Occitan: furor
* → Piedmontese: furor
* → Portuguese: furor
* → Sicilian: fururi
* → Romanian: furoare
* → Spanish: furor

### References

* “furor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “furor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* furor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to make some one furious: impellere aliquem in furorem to become furious: furore inflammari, incendi in a transport of rage: furore incensus, abreptus, impulsus
* “furor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin furōrem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /fuˈɾoʁ/ [fuˈɾoh]
* (Brazil) IPA: /fuˈɾoʁ/ [fuˈɾoh]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /fuˈɾoɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /fuˈɾoʁ/ [fuˈɾoχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /fuˈɾoɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /fuˈɾoɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /fuˈɾoɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /fuˈɾo.ɾi/
* Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
* Hyphenation: fu‧ror

### Noun

furor m (plural furores)
* furor (general uproar or commotion)
* furor; frenzy (state of intense excitement)
    Synonyms: frenesi, azáfama
* fury (extreme anger)
    Synonyms: fúria, ira, cólera

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:furor.

### Further reading

* “furor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin furor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fuˈɾoɾ/ [fuˈɾoɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: fu‧ror

### Noun

furor m (plural furores)
* fury, rage
    Synonym: rabia
* frenzy
    Synonym: frenesí

### Further reading

* “furor”, 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

## Swedish
### Noun

furor
* indefinite plural of fura