cura

See also: Cura, curá, curà, curâ, and čura

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈku.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈku.ɾa]

Etymology 1

From , from Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Noun

cura f (plural cures)

1. care (close attention; concern; responsibility)

   amb molta cura ― with great care; very carefully

2. care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
3. cure (a method that restores good health)

   Synonyms: guariment, guarició

Derived terms

• acurat
• curós

Related terms

• curar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cura

Further reading

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

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French

Verb

cura

1. third-person singular past historic of curer

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Galician

Verb

cura

1. third-person singular present indicative of curar
2. second-person singular imperative of curar

Etymology

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Noun

cura f (plural curas)

1. care (close attention; concern; responsibility)
2. care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
3. cure (a method that restores good health)

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Hausa

Verb

cūrā̀ (grade 1)

1. to knead into balls

Related terms

• curi

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Noun

cura f (plural cure)

1. care
2. accuracy
3. cure
4. treatment (medical)

Related terms

• curare

Verb

cura

1. third-person singular present of curare
2. second-person singular imperative of curare

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Ladin

Etymology

From Latin cura.

Noun

cura f (plural cures)

1. care
2. treatment

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Latin

Alternative forms

• (archaic) coira, coera

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.ra/, [ˈkuːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ra/, [ˈkuːrä]

• Audio (Classical):

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Noun

cūra f (genitive cūrae); first declension

1. care, concern, thought; trouble, solicitude; anxiety, grief, sorrow.
   • c. 50 C.E., Seneca the Younger, Phaedra, 607

     Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.

     Trivial concerns talk, great ones are speechless.

   • Vergilius, Aeneis, Book VI, line 85

     Mitte hanc de pectore curam.

     Dismiss this anxiety from your heart.

2. Attention, management, administration, charge, care; command, office; guardianship.
3. Written work, writing.
4. (medicine) Medical attendance, healing.
5. (agriculture) Rearing, culture, care.
6. (rare) An attendant, guardian, observer.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cūra	cūrae
Genitive	cūrae	cūrārum
Dative	cūrae	cūrīs
Accusative	cūram	cūrās
Ablative	cūrā	cūrīs
Vocative	cūra	cūrae

Antonyms

• (care): incūria

Derived terms

• cūragendārius
• cūrius
• cūriōsus
• cūrō
• incūria
• sēcūrus
• tricūrium

 

Descendants

• Catalan: cura
• Dutch: kuur
• English: cure
• French: cure
• Friulian: cure
• Irish: cúram
• Italian: cura
• Ladin: cura
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cura
  • Portuguese: cura
• Romanian: cură
• Spanish: cura

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cūrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cūrō

References

• “cura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cura 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)
• cura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
    
  • to expend great labour on a thing: operam (laborem, curam) in or ad aliquid impendere
    
  • to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici
    
  • somebody, something is never absent from my thoughts: aliquis, aliquid mihi curae or cordi est
    
  • to have laid something to heart; to take an interest in a thing: curae habere aliquid
    
  • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas et cogitationes in rem publicam conferre
    
  • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas in rei publicae salute defigere (Phil. 14. 5. 13)
    
  • (ambiguous) anxiety troubles and torments one: cura sollicitat angitque aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) good-bye; farewell: vale or cura ut valeas
    
• “cura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cura in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “cura”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “cura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cu‧ra
• Rhymes: -uɾa

Noun

cura f (plural curas)

1. cure (a method, device or medication that restores good health)
2. healing (the process of restoring good health)

Related terms

• curar

Verb

cura

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin cūrāre, present active infinitive of cūrō, possibly influenced by colāre.

Verb

a cura (third-person singular present cură, past participle curat) 1st conj.

1. (rare) to clean
2. (regional) to clear, eliminate, deforest

Conjugation

    conjugation of cura (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a cura
gerund			curând
past participle			curat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	cur	curi	cură	curăm	curați	cură
	imperfect	curam	curai	cura	curam	curați	curau
	simple perfect	curai	curași	cură	curarăm	curarăți	curară
	pluperfect	curasem	curaseși	curase	curaserăm	curaserăți	curaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să cur	să curi	să cure	să curăm	să curați	să cure
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		cură			curați
	negative		nu cura			nu curați

Synonyms

• (clean): curăța

Derived terms

• curat

Related terms

• curătură

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German kurieren, itself borrowed from the same Latin root as the above.

Verb

a cura (third-person singular present curează, past participle curat) 1st conj.

1. (rare) to cure, treat an illness, care for

Conjugation

    conjugation of cura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a cura
gerund			curând
past participle			curat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	curez	curezi	curează	curăm	curați	curează
	imperfect	curam	curai	cura	curam	curați	curau
	simple perfect	curai	curași	cură	curarăm	curarăți	curară
	pluperfect	curasem	curaseși	curase	curaserăm	curaserăți	curaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să curez	să curezi	să cureze	să curăm	să curați	să cureze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		curează			curați
	negative		nu cura			nu curați

Synonyms

• îngriji, trata

See also

• cură

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsûra/
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra

Noun

cȕra f (Cyrillic spelling цу̏ра)

1. girl (young woman)
2. girlfriend (in a relationship)

Declension

Declension of cura

	singular	plural
nominative	cȕra	cure
genitive	cure	cȗrā
dative	curi	curama
accusative	curu	cure
vocative	curo	cure
locative	curi	curama
instrumental	curom	curama

See also

• momak

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾa/ [ˈku.ɾa]

Etymology 1

From Latin cūra (“care, concern”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

Noun

cura f (plural curas)

1. cure (something that restores good health)
2. (Bolivia, Chile, colloquial) drunkenness

Synonyms

• (drunkenness): See Thesaurus:borrachera.

Related terms

• curar

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin.

Noun

cura m (plural curas)

1. priest

   Synonyms: párroco, sacerdote

Derived terms

• nunca digas de este agua no beberé, ni este cura no es mi padre

 

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

cura f (plural curas)

1. (Colombia, dated) avocado

   Synonym: aguacate

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cura

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of curar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of curar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of curar

Further reading

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

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Turkish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cura (definite accusative curayı, plural curalar)

Cura and bağlama

1. (music) a stringed musical instrument

Descendants

• Greek: τζουράς (tzourás)