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uri is a Latin form of uro, meaning “burn; scorch, sting; inflame (with love)”. It is the present passive infinitive.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.28.1: Tertium est genus eorum, qui uri appellantur. Hi sunt magnitudine paulo infra elephantos, specie et colore et figura tauri.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 4.37.1: … e militiam et facilem. Nolo te decipi. Eadem honestissimi huius et illius turpissimi auctoramenti verba sunt: Uri, vinciri ferroque necari.

All forms of uro (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.