LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verbfirst/second-declension participle

futūrus

futūrus (feminine futūra, neuter futūrum)
Classical[fʊˈtuː.rʊs]Ecclesiastical[fuˈtuː.rus]

Meaning

  1. participleabout to be, about to exist
    [...] mōtūsque excēpit prīma futūrōs, omnia tūta timēns. [...].… and of her own intuition [Dido] knew first that [something] was about to happen, fearing everything, [however] safe.29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.297–298
  2. participlefuture
  3. activefutureparticiplefuture active participle of sum.

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

coming, future
futūrus — in Seneca, ch. XV

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

in posterum; in futurum
for the future.
futura non cogitare, curare
to take no thought for the future.
futura providere (not praevidere)
to foresee the future.
futura or casus futuros (multo ante) prospicere
to foresee the far distant future.
longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae (De Amic. 12. 40)
to foresee political events long before.

fŭtūrus, a, um, Part., v. sum.

Origins

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Kortlandt (1986:91) suggests that the short vowel in fu- (rather than long fū-) is more easily explained as descending not from *bʰuH- but from bʰHu- with regular laryngeal metathesis from bhuH-, per Werner Winter (1965:192). Cognate with English be, Ancient Greek φύω (phúō), Sanskrit भवति (bhávati), Persian بودن (budan), Irish bí, among others. Also see be.

Descendants
  • Catalanfutur
  • Englishfuture
  • Frenchfutur
  • Italianfuturo
  • Portuguesefuturo
  • Spanishfuturo
  • Esperantofuturo
  • Galicianfuturo
  • Piedmontesefutur
  • Sicilianfuturu

Quick answers

What does futūrus mean in Latin?
futūrus, a verb, means “about to be, about to exist; future; future active participle of sum.”.
What are the principal parts of futūrus?
futūrus, futūra, futūrum (first/second-declension participle).
How do you pronounce futūrus?
In classical Latin, [fʊˈtuː.rʊs]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [fuˈtuː.rus].