creatura

See also: creatură

Italian

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Etymology

From Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krea̯ˈtu.ra/, [kr̺eä̯ˈt̪uːr̺ä]
• Hyphenation: crea‧tù‧ra

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, 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. (figuratively) protege

Derived terms

Derived terms

• creaturaccia

• creaturina

• creaturone

Related terms

Related terms

• creare

• creatività

• creativo
• creatore

• creazione

Anagrams

• carature

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) 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: criatura
• Dalmatian: cratoire
• Dutch: creatuur
• English: creature
• French: créature
• Irish: créatúr

• Italian: creatura
• Old Occitan: creatura
• Portuguese: criatura
• Romanian: creatură
• Scottish Gaelic: creutair
• Spanish: criatura

Participle

(deprecated template usage) creātūra

1. nominative feminine singular of creātūrus
2. nominative neuter plural of creātūrus
3. accusative neuter plural of creātūrus
4. vocative feminine singular of creātūrus
5. vocative neuter plural of creātūrus

Participle

(deprecated template usage) 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.

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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.

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾe.a.ˈtu.ɾa/

Noun

creatura f (plural creaturas)

1. creature, living being
2. a newborn child

Descendants

• Galician: criatura
• Portuguese: criatura

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Portuguese

Noun

creatura f (plural s)

1. Obsolete form of criatura.