curaçao

See also: curacao, Curacao, curação, and Curaçao

English

Curaçao liqueur

Alternative forms

• curacao
• curacoa, curaçoa (both dated)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch curaçao, named for the island Curaçao in the Dutch Antilles, ultimately probably a Portuguese transcription of a Lokono endonym but literally equivalent to Portuguese curação (“cure, healing”), from Latin cūrātiō (“cure”), from cūrāre (“to cure”) + -ātiō (“-ation: forming abstract nouns”), from cūra (“attention, care”) + -āre (“forming verbs”), q.v.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːɹəsaʊ/, /ˈkjuːɹəsəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsaʊ/, /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsoʊ/, /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsaʊ/, /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsoʊ/

Noun

curaçao (countable and uncountable, plural curaçaos)

1. A liqueur made from eau de vie, sugar, and dried peel of sweet and sour oranges, naturally colorless but typically artificially colored blue.

Translations

liqueur

• Bulgarian: кюрасо́ n (kjurasó)
• Czech: Curaçao likér
• Dutch: curaçao (nl) m
• French: curaçao (fr) m
• German: Curaçao (de) m
• Hebrew: קוראסאו
• Hungarian: küraszó, narancslikőr (hu)
• Indonesian: Curaçao
• Italian: curaçao m
• Japanese: キュラソー (kyurasō)
• Korean: 퀴라소 (kwiraso) (리큐어)
• Papiamentu: Curacao likeur
• Polish: curacao n, curaçao (pl) n
• Portuguese: curaçau m
• Romanian: Curaçao
• Russian: кюрасо́ (ru) m (kjurasó) (ликёр), кюраса́о m (kjurasáo) (ликёр)
• Spanish: curaçao m
• Swedish: Curaçao
• Vietnamese: Curaçao

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Anagrams

• curacoa, curaçoa

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch curaçao, named after the island Curaçao.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁa.so/

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Noun

curaçao m (plural curaçaos)

1. the orange peel-flavored liqueur curaçao

Further reading

• “curaçao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.