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English
Noun
ischuria (countable and uncountable, plural ischurias)
- (archaic) Alternative spelling of ischury
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἰσχουρία (iskhouría, “retention of urine”), from ἴσχω (ískhō, “I keep back, restrain”) + οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).
Noun
ischūria f (genitive ischūriae); first declension
- ischury
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “ischuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ischuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.