Italian

Noun

creatura f ‎(plural creature)

1. creature
   • 1224, Francis of Assisi, Cantico di Frate Sole, Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di San Francesco:

     Laudato ſie mi ſignore cū tucte le tue creature, ſpetialm̄te meſſoꝛ lo fr̄e ſole […]

     Be praised, my Lord, through all Your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, […]

   • 1320, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Johannes Numeister, published 1472, Canto I:

     Vergine Madre figlia del tuo figlio ¶ humile et alta piu che creatura ¶ termino fiſſo decterno conſiglio […]

     Thou Virgin Mother, daughter of thy Son, ¶ humble and high beyond all other creature, ¶ the limit fixed of the eternal counsel, […]

2. (regional) an infant or small child
3. (figuratively) protege

Derived terms

Related terms

Anagrams

• carature

Latin

Etymology

Substantivization of the feminine future participle form of creō ‎(“I create, make”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kre.aːˈtuː.ra/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kre.aˈtu.ra/, [kre.aˈtuː.ra]

Noun

creātūra f ‎(genitive creātūrae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. A created thing; creature.

Inflection

First declension.

Related terms

Descendants

Participle

creātūra

1. nominative feminine singular of creātūrus
2. nominative neuter plural of creātūrus
3. accusative neuter plural of creātūrus
4. vocative feminine singular of creātūrus
5. vocative neuter plural of creātūrus

creātūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of creātūrus

References

• creatura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• CREATURA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “creatura”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin creatura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾe.a.ˈtu.ɾa/

Noun

creatura f

1. creature, living being
2. a newborn child

Descendants

• Galician: criatura
• Portuguese: criatura

Old Provençal

Etymology

From Latin creatura.

Noun

creatura f ‎(oblique plural creaturas, nominative singular creatura, nominative plural creaturas)

1. creature (chiefly a non-human animal or being)
   • c. 1130, Marcabru, pastorela:

     Toza, tota creatura / Revertis a sa natura [...].

     Girl, every creature reverts to its nature.

Portuguese

Noun

creatura f (plural creaturas)

1. Obsolete form of criatura.