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Latin
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“stick, pole”), the same root of Old English sweor (“pillar, column”).[1] Possibly related to sūra (“calf (of the leg)”).
Noun
sūrus m (genitive sūrī); second declension
- A branch, a stake
Declension
Second-declension noun.
References
- “surus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- surus 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)
- surus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.