Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryStern, harsh and forbidding. · Unyielding and obstinate. · Expressing gloom or melancholy.
Borrowed from Scots dour, possibly from Latin dūrus (“hard, stern”), via Middle Irish dúr. Compare French dur, Catalan dur, Italian duro, Portuguese duro, Romanian dur, Spanish duro. Doublet of dure.
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