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cura

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cura"

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Noun

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cura f (plural cures)

  1. care (close attention; concern; responsibility)
    amb molta cura ― with great care; very carefully
  2. care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
  3. cure (a method that restores good health)
    Synonyms: guariment, guarició
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cura

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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French

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Pronunciation

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cura

  1. third-person singular past historic of curer

Galician

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Etymology

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From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Verb

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cura

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Noun

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cura f (plural curas)

  1. care (close attention; concern; responsibility)
  2. care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
  3. cure (a method that restores good health)

Hausa

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃúː.ɽàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [t͡ʃúː.ɽàː]

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cūrā̀ (grade 1)

  1. to knead into balls
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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈku.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: cù‧ra

Etymology 1

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From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Noun

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cura f (plural cure, diminutive curétta (“cure”) or curettìna (“cure”))

  1. care
  2. accuracy
  3. cure
  4. treatment (medical)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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cura

  1. inflection of curare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

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Ladin

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Etymology

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From Latin cura.

Noun

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cura f (plural cures)

  1. care
  2. treatment

Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *kʷoizā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

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Noun

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cūra f (genitive cūrae); first declension

  1. care, concern, thought
    Synonyms: cultūra, sollicitūdō, tūtēla, cūrātiō
  2. pains, industry, diligence, exertion
    Synonyms: cōnātus, opus, opera, labor, studium, mōlīmen, intēnsiō, mōlēs, pulvis
  3. anxiety, grief, sorrow
    Synonyms: maestitia, maeror, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, aegritūdō, dēsīderium, sollicitūdō
    Antonyms: dēlectātiō, lascīvia, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās
  4. trouble, solicitude
    Synonyms: difficultās, īnfortūnium, mōlēs
    • c. 50 C.E., Seneca the Younger, Phaedra, 607
      Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.
      Trivial concerns talk, great ones are speechless.
    • Vergilius, Aeneis, Book VI, line 85
      Mitte hanc de pectore curam.
      Dismiss this anxiety from your heart.
  5. attention, management, administration, charge, care; command, office; guardianship
    Synonyms: mūnus, officium, ministerium, negōtium, cūrātiō
  6. written work, writing
    Synonym: opus
  7. (medicine) medical attendance, healing
    Synonym: cūrātiō
  8. (agriculture) rearing, culture, care
  9. (rare) an attendant, guardian, observer

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cūra cūrae
genitive cūrae cūrārum
dative cūrae cūrīs
accusative cūram cūrās
ablative cūrā cūrīs
vocative cūra cūrae

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: cura
  • Corsican: cura
  • Friulian: cure
  • Italian: cura
  • Ladin: cura
  • → Middle Irish: *cúramm
  • Old French: cure
  • Piedmontese: cura
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *kʉr
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cura
  • Romagnol: cùra
  • Romanian: cură
  • Spanish: cura

Verb

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cūrā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cūrō

References

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  • “cura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
    • to expend great labour on a thing: operam (laborem, curam) in or ad aliquid impendere
    • to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici
    • somebody, something is never absent from my thoughts: aliquis, aliquid mihi curae or cordi est
    • to have laid something to heart; to take an interest in a thing: curae habere aliquid
    • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas et cogitationes in rem publicam conferre
    • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas in rei publicae salute defigere (Phil. 14. 5. 13)
    • (ambiguous) anxiety troubles and torments one: cura sollicitat angitque aliquem
    • (ambiguous) good-bye; farewell: vale or cura ut valeas
  • “cura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cura in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “cura”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “cura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -uɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: cu‧ra

Etymology 1

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From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Noun

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cura f (plural curas)

  1. cure (a method, device or medication that restores good health)
  2. healing (the process of restoring good health)
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cura

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin cūrāre, present active infinitive of cūrō, possibly influenced by colāre.

Verb

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a cura (third-person singular present cură, past participle curat) 1st conj.

  1. (rare) to clean
    Synonym: curăța
  2. (regional) to clear, eliminate, deforest
Conjugation
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    conjugation of cura (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive a cura
gerund curând
past participle curat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present cur curi cură curăm curați cură
imperfect curam curai cura curam curați curau
simple perfect curai curași cură curarăm curarăți curară
pluperfect curasem curaseși curase curaserăm curaserăți curaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să cur să curi să cure să curăm să curați să cure
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative cură curați
negative nu cura nu curați
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from German kurieren, itself borrowed from the same Latin root as the above.

Verb

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a cura (third-person singular present curează, past participle curat) 1st conj.

  1. (rare) to cure, treat an illness, care for
    Synonyms: îngriji, trata
Conjugation
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    conjugation of cura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a cura
gerund curând
past participle curat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present curez curezi curează curăm curați curează
imperfect curam curai cura curam curați curau
simple perfect curai curași cură curarăm curarăți curară
pluperfect curasem curaseși curase curaserăm curaserăți curaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să curez să curezi să cureze să curăm să curați să cureze
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative curează curați
negative nu cura nu curați
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Rwanda-Rundi

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-túda (“to hammer; to forge”).

Verb

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-cúra (infinitive gucúra, perfective -cúze)

  1. to forge from metal

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Either from earlier cuca (“female genitalia”) or from Polish córka, córa (“daughter”) (cognate with Serbo-Croatian kći (“daughter”)).

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  • IPA(key): /t͡sûra/
  • Hyphenation: cu‧ra

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cȕra f (Cyrillic spelling цу̏ра)

  1. girl (young woman)
  2. girlfriend (a female partner)
    Brate, cura ti je luđakinja. ― Bro, your girlfriend is a nutcase.

Declension

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Declension of cura
singular plural
nominative cȕra cure
genitive cure cȗrā
dative curi curama
accusative curu cure
vocative curo cure
locative curi curama
instrumental curom curama

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Further reading

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  • “cura”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin cūra (“care, concern”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Noun

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cura f (plural curas)

  1. cure (something that restores good health)
  2. (Bolivia, Chile, colloquial) drunkenness
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin cūra (“monastic office holder, obedientiary”) from Latin cūra (“warden, administrator”) (originally "care, concern, public administration"; see above).

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cura m (plural curas)

  1. priest; curate
    Synonyms: párroco, sacerdote
    Coordinate term: vicario
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Etymology 3

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Unknown.

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cura f (plural curas)

  1. (Colombia, dated) avocado
    Synonyms: aguacate, (Philippines) avocado, (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) palta

Etymology 4

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Noun

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cura f (plural curas)

  1. female equivalent of curo (“someone from Courland”)

Adjective

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cura f

  1. feminine singular of curo

Etymology 5

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cura

  1. inflection of curar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish جوره (cura) from either Persian جوره (jura) or Persian جره (jarra).

Noun

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cura (definite accusative curayı, plural curalar)

 
Cura and bağlama
  1. (music) a stringed musical instrument

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