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curiosus
curiosus
Latin
Adjective
cūriōsus m (feminine cūriōsa, neuter cūriōsum); first/second declension
- Careful, diligent, thoughtful, devoted.
- Elaborate, complicated.
- That injures himself by care; careworn, emaciated, wasted, lean.
- (in a good sense) Curious, inquisitive.
- (in a bad sense) Meddlesome, officious, prying, interfering, curious, inquisitive.
- (substantive) One who pries; a spy or scout; secret police, informer.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | cūriōsus | cūriōsa | cūriōsum | cūriōsī | cūriōsae | cūriōsa | |
| genitive | cūriōsī | cūriōsae | cūriōsī | cūriōsōrum | cūriōsārum | cūriōsōrum | |
| dative | cūriōsō | cūriōsō | cūriōsīs | ||||
| accusative | cūriōsum | cūriōsam | cūriōsum | cūriōsōs | cūriōsās | cūriōsa | |
| ablative | cūriōsō | cūriōsā | cūriōsō | cūriōsīs | |||
| vocative | cūriōse | cūriōsa | cūriōsum | cūriōsī | cūriōsae | cūriōsa | |
Derived terms
- cūriōsē
- cūriōsitās
- cūriōsulus
- incūriōsus
Related terms
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References
- curiosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- CURIOSUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “curiosus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.