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cura

cura

See also: curá, curà, curâ, and čura

Catalan

Noun

cura f (plural cures)

  1. care
  2. cure

Verb

cura

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

French

Verb

cura

  1. third-person singular past historic of curer

Galician

Verb

cura

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

Hausa

Verb

cūrā̀ (grade 1)

  1. to knead into balls

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cura.

Noun

cura f (plural cure)

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

Verb

cura

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

Ladin

Noun

cura f (plural cures)

  1. care
  2. treatment

Latin

Alternative forms

  • (archaic) coira, coera

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (to heed).

Pronunciation

Noun

cūra f (genitive cūrae); first declension

  1. Care, concern, thought; trouble, solicitude; anxiety, grief, sorrow.
    • c. 50 CE, 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.
  2. Attention, management, administration, charge, care; command, office; guardianship.
  3. Written work, writing.
  4. (medicine) Medical attendance, healing.
  5. (agriculture) Rearing, culture, care.
  6. (rare) An attendant, guardian, observer.

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative cūra cūrae
genitive cūrae cūrārum
dative cūrae cūrīs
accusative cūram cūrās
ablative cūrā cūrīs
vocative cūra cūrae

Antonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: cura
  • Old Portuguese: cura
  • Portuguese: cura
  • Romanian: cură
  • Spanish: cura

Verb

cūrā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cūrō

References

  • 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, 1883–1887)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cura”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • cura in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek 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

Etymology

From Latin cura.

Noun

cura f (plural curas)

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

Verb

cura

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of curar
    Ele cura os doentes.
    He cures the sick.
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of curar
    Tu aí, cura os doentes sozinho.
    You there, cure the sick by yourself.

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin cūrāre, present active infinitive of cūrō, possibly influenced by colare.

Verb

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

  1. (rare) to clean
  2. (regional) to clear, eliminate, deforest
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Etymology 2

From German kurieren

Verb

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

  1. (rare) to cure, treat an illness, care for
Conjugation
Synonyms
See also
  • cură

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cȕra f (Cyrillic spelling цу̏ра)

  1. girl (young woman)
  2. girlfriend (in a relationship)

Declension

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin cūra (care, concern).

Noun

cura f (plural curas)

  1. cure
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Verb

cura

  1. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of curar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of curar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of curar, it cures

Etymology 2

Latin

Noun

cura m (plural curas)

  1. priest
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Unknown

  1. avocado (Colombia, dated)

Turkish

Noun

cura (definite accusative curayı, plural curalar)

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

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