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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

Related terms

• curi

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.ra/

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.

Antonyms

• (care): incūria

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (clean): curăța

Derived terms

• curat

Related terms

• curătură

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

• îngriji, trata

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

See also

• momak

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin cūra ‎(“care, concern”).

Noun

cura f ‎(plural curas)

1. cure

Related terms

• curar verb

Verb

cura

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) 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

• párroco m
• sacerdote m

Etymology 3

Unknown

1. avocado (Colombia, dated)

Turkish

Noun

cura ‎(definite accusative curayı, plural curalar)

Cura and bağlama

1. (music) a stringed musical instrument

Descendants

• Greek: τζουράς ‎(tzourás)