curvatura

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin curvātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kur.bəˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kur.vəˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kuɾ.vaˈtu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa

Noun

curvatura f (plural curvatures)

1. curvature (the shape of something curved)

Related terms

• corba
• corbar

Further reading

• “curvatura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “curvatura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “curvatura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “curvatura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin curvātūra.

Noun

curvatura f (plural curvaturas)

1. curvature (the shape of something curved)

Related terms

• curva
• curvar

Further reading

• “curvatura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin curvātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kur.vaˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: cur‧va‧tù‧ra

Noun

curvatura f (plural curvature)

1. curvature (the shape of something curved)
2. camber (of a road)
3. warp

Related terms

• curvare

Further reading

• curvatura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From curvātum +‎ -tūra.

Noun

curvātūra f (genitive curvātūrae); first declension

1. bend, bending, curvature
2. (architecture) arch, vault

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	curvātūra	curvātūrae
Genitive	curvātūrae	curvātūrārum
Dative	curvātūrae	curvātūrīs
Accusative	curvātūram	curvātūrās
Ablative	curvātūrā	curvātūrīs
Vocative	curvātūra	curvātūrae

Participle

curvātūra

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

Participle

curvātūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of curvātūrus

References

• “curvatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “curvatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• curvatura 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)

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin curvātūra. By surface analysis, curvar +‎ -tura.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuʁ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuɦ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuʁ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuɦ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kuɾ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kuʁ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kuɻ.vaˈtu.ɾa/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾ.vɐˈtu.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾ.vɐˈtu.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuɾ.bɐˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuɾ.βɐˈtu.ɾɐ]

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cur‧va‧tu‧ra

Noun

curvatura f (plural curvaturas)

1. curvature (the shape of something curved)

Related terms

• curva
• curvar

Further reading

• “curvatura” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “curvatura” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “curvatura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “curvatura” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “curvatura” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “curvatura” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin curvātūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuɾbaˈtuɾa/ [kuɾ.β̞aˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cur‧va‧tu‧ra

Noun

curvatura f (plural curvaturas)

1. curvature (the shape of something curved)

Related terms

• curva
• curvar

 

Further reading

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