Curaçao
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, literally from curação (“cure, healing”) but probably a transcription of a Lokono endonym.
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Curaçao
- An island in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym but sometimes folk-etymologized as derived from Portuguese Ilha da Curação (“Isle of Healing”) from curação (“cure, healing”) in reference to the island's use as a place of recovery for sailors sick with scurvy and other ailments or from modification of coração (“heart”) in reference to its supposed importance in local trade.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /kyːraːˈsʌu/, /kuːraːˈsʌu/
- (Limburg) IPA(key): /kyːraːˈzaʊ̯/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Cu‧ra‧çao
Proper noun[edit]
Curaçao n
- An island and constituent country of the Netherlands.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym.
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Curaçao m
- Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Netherlands).
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym.
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Curaçao n (proper noun, genitive Curaçaos or (optionally with an article) Curaçao)
- Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Netherlands)
Noun[edit]
Curaçao m (strong, genitive Curaçaos or Curaçao, plural Curaçaos or Curaçao)
- curaçao (liqueur)
Papiamentu[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym. Doublet of Kòrsou.
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Curaçao
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Portuguese curação.
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Curaçao n (indeclinable)
- Curaçao (island)
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Further reading[edit]
- Curaçao in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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- de:Curaçao
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- pl:Netherlands
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