-uri

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-uri

/urʲ/

Where it comes from

From older -ure, from the plurals in -ora of Latin neuter nouns ending in -us (such as tempus, tempora, ancestor of Romanian timp, timpuri). Because the final vowel of Latin -ora was identical in form with the feminine singular ending -a, neuter plural forms ending in -ora were interpreted as feminine; then by analogy with feminine plural forms, the final -a was replaced, first with -e (the feminine plural ending that developed from proto-Romance *-as > *-ai̯ > -e) later with -i (many feminine Romanian nouns such as roată have also replaced an original plural in -e with one in -i). Maiden 2016 suggests that, as an alternative to analyzing -uri as a unitary plural suffix, it is also possible to analyze these plurals as ending in a root extension -ur- followed by the plural ending -i.

suffix -uri · -urile · -urilor

morpheme Marks the plural of certain neuter (and more rarely feminine) nouns.

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-s regular plurals of nouns

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"-uri." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ro/-uri. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

-uri. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ro/-uri

Chicago

"-uri." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ro/-uri.

BibTeX

@misc{uri_2026,
  title = {-uri},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ro/-uri},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}