Etymograph

English

fury

Fury comes from Middle English furie ‘fury, ire, rage’, and goes back to Latin furia.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfuria1‘rage’
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400furie1
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500furie1‘fury, ire, rage’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1594fury1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English fury
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto): “Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide,…”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfuriaWiktionary, English fury‘rage’
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400furieWiktionary, English fury
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500furieWiktionary, English fury‘fury, ire, rage’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1594furyWiktionary, English fury. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto): “Small lightes are ſoone blown out, huge fires abide,…”

Every English word from Latin furia

Today it means

noun Extreme anger.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “fury”. 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.

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