Catalan

Noun

censura f ‎(plural censures)

1. censorship

Related terms

• censor

French

Verb

censura

1. third-person singular past historic of censurer

Italian

Noun

censura f ‎(plural censure)

1. censorship
2. censure

Related terms

• autocensura
• censore
• censorio
• censurare

Verb

censura

1. third-person singular present indicative of censurare
2. second-person singular imperative of censurare

Latin

Etymology

From cēnseō ‎(“tax, assess, value, judge, consider, etc.”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kenˈsuː.ra/, [kẽːˈsuː.ra]

Noun

cēnsūra f ‎(genitive cēnsūrae); first declension

1. The office of a censor; censorship
2. appraisal, oversight, control
3. A judgment; opinion.
4. A severe judgment.

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• English: censure
• French: censure
• Russian: цензу́ра ‎(cenzúra)
• Spanish: censura

References

• censura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• censura in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CENSURA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “censura”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to perform the censors' duties: censuram agere, gerere
    
• censure in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Portuguese

Noun

censura f (uncountable)

1. censure
2. censorship

Spanish

Noun

censura f ‎(plural censuras)

1. censure
2. censorship

Verb

censura

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of censurar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of censurar.