Etymograph

English

endura

Endura comes from Old Occitan endurar ‘to fast, endure’, from Latin indūrō ‘to make hard’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dweh₂- ‘long, distant’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dweh₂-1‘long, distant’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dweh₂rós1‘long’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*dūros1reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdūrus1‘hard’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdūrō1‘harden, endure’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEindūrō2as indūrāre‘to make hard’
  7. Old Occitanc. 950–1500endurar3‘to fast, endure’
  8. New Latinc. 1500–1900endūra3
  9. Englishearliest quotation 1942endura3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin induro
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Old Occitan endurar
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English endura
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: “There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dweh₂-Wiktionary, Latin induro‘long, distant’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*dweh₂rósWiktionary, Latin induro‘long’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*dūrosWiktionary, Latin induroreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdūrusWiktionary, Latin induro‘hard’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdūrōWiktionary, Latin induro‘harden, endure’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEindūrōWiktionary, Old Occitan enduraras indūrāre‘to make hard’
  7. Old Occitanc. 950–1500endurarWiktionary, English endura‘to fast, endure’
  8. New Latinc. 1500–1900endūraWiktionary, English endura
  9. Englishearliest quotation 1942enduraWiktionary, English endura. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: “There was a particularly horrible travesty of extreme unction…”

Linked words

through Latin dūrus ‘hard’

durability, duress, dour, dur, durum, 12 more

through Latin dūrō ‘harden, endure’

during, duration, durable, durant, 6 more

Today it means

noun A fast or series of privations undertaken by the Cathars to purify the soul, often resulting in death.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “endura”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin induro, Old Occitan endurar. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *dweh₂- / endura

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