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futurus

Pronunciation: [fʊˈtuː.rʊs]

“futurus” is a Latin word. Its 2 meanings in English:

verb

  1. about to be, about to exist
  2. future

In Latin

  1. Qui erit, qui eventurus est.

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Kortlandt (1986:91) suggests that the short vowel in fu- (rather than long fū-) is more easily explained as descending not from *bʰuH- but from bʰHu- with regular laryngeal metathesis from bhuH-, per Werner Winter (1965:192). Cognate with English be, Ancient Greek φύω (phúō), Sanskrit भवति (bhávati), Persian بودن (budan), Irish bí, among others. Also see be.

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