furor

• furore (UK), furour (obsolete)

From Middle English furour, from Middle French fureur, from Old French furor, from Latin furor, from furō (“To rage, to be out of one's mind”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊəɹɔː/
  • (pour–poor merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfjɔːɹɔː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfjʊɹˌoɹ/, /ˈfjʊɹɚ/, /ˈfjuˌɹoɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊəɹɔː(ɹ), -ʊəɹə(ɹ)
• Homophone: Führer

furor (countable and uncountable, plural furors) (American spelling)

1. A general uproar or commotion.
   • 1998, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, American Medicine: The Quest for Competence (page 79)

     This action created a furor in the broader medical community. It was considered undoctorly, unprofessional, illegal, and an infringement on the right to practice.

2. Violent anger or frenzy.

   The verdict of not guilty created a true furor in the courtroom.

3. A state of intense excitement.

   The story of the princess's affair caused a furor among journalists.

• furor uterinus
• fury, furious

Borrowed from Latin furōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [fuˈɾor]

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furor m or (archaic or poetic) f (plural furors)

1. furor, frenzy
2. (figurative) rage, craze

• fer furor

• fúria
• furiós

• “furor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “furor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “furor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

From fūr (“thief”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.rɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.ror]

fūror (present infinitive fūrārī, perfect active fūrātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to steal, plunder
2. to take away by stealth, remove secretly, to withdraw

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

From furō (“to rage, to be out of one's mind”) +‎ -or.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfʊ.rɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.ror]

furor m (genitive furōris); third declension

1. frenzy, fury, rage, raving, insanity, madness, passion
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations 1:

     Quam diū etiam furor iste tuus nōs ēlūdet?

     How long yet will that madness of yours mock us?

   • 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.”)

Third-declension noun.

• furō

• “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^[1], 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

Borrowed from Latin furōrem.

• Homophones: furou, furô (non-rhotic accents)
• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: fu‧ror

furor m (plural furores)

1. furor (general uproar or commotion)
2. furor; frenzy (state of intense excitement)

   Synonyms: frenesi, azáfama

3. fury (extreme anger)

   Synonyms: fúria, ira, cólera

For quotations using this term, see Citations:furor.

• “furor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “furor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin furor.

• IPA^(key): /fuˈɾoɾ/ [fuˈɾoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: fu‧ror

furor m (plural furores)

1. fury, rage

   Synonym: rabia

2. frenzy

   Synonym: frenesí

• “furor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

furor

1. indefinite plural of fura