endura

English

Etymology

From New Latin endūra, from Old Occitan endurar (“to fast, endure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈdjʊɹə/

Noun

endura (plural enduras)

1. (ecclesiastical history) A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.
   • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 173:

     There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction called the ‘endura’.

   • 2000, René Weis, The Yellow Cross, Penguin, published 2001, page 60:

     Guillemette was consoled by the Good Men and went through the endura, the Cathars' purifying death-fast.

Related terms

• endurance
• endure

 

Anagrams

• Renaud, Urenda, dauner, neurad, undear, unread

Catalan

Verb

endura

1. inflection of endurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

French

Verb

endura

1. third-person singular past historic of endurer

Anagrams

• Renaud

Spanish

Verb

endura

1. inflection of endurar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative