creatura

See also: creatură

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin creatūra.

Noun

creatura f (plural creatures)

1. creature (living being, especially an animal)

   Synonym: criatura

Related terms

• crear
• criatura

Further reading

• “creatura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “creatura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kre.aˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: cre‧a‧tù‧ra

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Noun

creatura f (plural creature)

1. creature
   • 1224, Francis of Assisi, Cantico di Frate Sole‎^[1], 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 my lord Brother Sun, […]

   • 1320, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso‎^[2], Johannes Numeister, published 1472, archived from the original on 8 March 2016, 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. (figurative) protege

Derived terms

Derived terms

• creaturaccia
• creaturina
• creaturone

Related terms

Related terms

• creare
• creatività
• creativo
• creatore
• creazione

Anagrams

• carature

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kre.aːˈtuː.ra/, [kreäːˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kre.aˈtu.ra/, [kreäˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

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

1. A created thing; creature.
2. Creation

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	creātūra	creātūrae
Genitive	creātūrae	creātūrārum
Dative	creātūrae	creātūrīs
Accusative	creātūram	creātūrās
Ablative	creātūrā	creātūrīs
Vocative	creātūra	creātūrae

Related terms

• creābilis
• creāmen
• creātiō
• creātor
• creātrix
• creō

 

Descendants

• Catalan: creatura, criatura
• Dalmatian: cratoire
• Dutch: creatuur
• English: creature
• French: créature
• → Hungarian: kreatúra
• → Middle Irish: crétúir
  • Irish: créatúr
    • → English: crathur
  • Manx: cretoor
  • Scottish Gaelic: creutair
• Italian: creatura
• Old Occitan: creatura
• Old Galician-Portuguese: creatura
  • Galician: criatura
  • Portuguese: criatura
• Romanian: creatură
• Sicilian: criaturu, criatura
• Spanish: criatura
• Welsh: creadur

Participle

creātūra

1. inflection of creātūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• creatura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾe.a.ˈtu.ɾa/

Noun

creatura f

1. creature, living being
2. a newborn child

Descendants

• Galician: criatura
• Portuguese: criatura

Old Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Portuguese

Noun

creatura f (plural creaturas)

1. Obsolete form of criatura.

Spanish

Noun

creatura f (plural creaturas)

1. (formal) creature

   Synonym: criatura

Further reading

• “creatura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014