English
fury
Fury comes from Middle English furie ‘fury, ire, rage’, and goes back to Latin furia.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfuria‘rage’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400furie
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form‘fury, ire, rage’
- Englishearliest quotation 1594fury
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfuria‘rage’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400furie
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500same form‘fury, ire, rage’
- Englishearliest quotation 1594fury
Earliest quotation: 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.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin furia / fury