Sura

Sura (plural Suras)

1. A surname.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sura is the 21439^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1219 individuals. Sura is most common among White (52.34%), Hispanic/Latino (28.06%), and Asian/Pacific Islander (17.97%) individuals.

• -saur, Ruas, URAs, USAR, USRA, saur

From sūra (“calf of the leg”).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.ra/, [ˈs̠uːrä]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ra/, [ˈsuːrä]

Sūra m sg (genitive Sūrae); first declension

1. a cognomen used by the gens Licinia, Marcia, and others

   Lucius Licinius Sura

    

First-declension noun, singular only.

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• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ra/, [ˈs̠ʊrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ra/, [ˈsuːrä]

Sura m sg (genitive Surae); first declension

View of the river

1. A tributary river of the Moselle, now the Sûre

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Sura3”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Sura”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.