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Where does “-ure” come from?

-ure (Middle English) comes from Old French -ure, from Latin -tūra.

Ancestry of “-ure”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old French-ureused to form usually feminine, usually abstract...
2Latin-tūra—

Words derived from “-ure”

  • exposure
  • seizure
  • composure
  • overexposure
  • discomposure
  • antiseizure
  • postexposure
  • autoexposure
  • underexposure
  • preexposure
  • reexposure
  • annexure
  • wafture
  • pseudoseizure
  • explicature
  • garmenture
  • seizurelike
  • coexposure
  • defeature
  • nonseizure
  • reseizure
  • composture
  • tainture
  • multiexposure
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