curiositas

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷey-

Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys-der.

Proto-Italic *kʷoizā

Latin cūra

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin incūria

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -ōsus

Latin incūriōsusbf.

Latin cūriōsus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin cūriōsitās

From cūriōsus + -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kuː.riˈoː.sɪ.taːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ku.riˈɔː.s̬i.tas]

Noun

cūriōsitās f (genitive cūriōsitātis); third declension

1. curiosity, inquisitiveness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cūriōsitās	cūriōsitātēs
genitive	cūriōsitātis	cūriōsitātum
dative	cūriōsitātī	cūriōsitātibus
accusative	cūriōsitātem	cūriōsitātēs
ablative	cūriōsitāte	cūriōsitātibus
vocative	cūriōsitās	cūriōsitātēs

Descendants

Descendants

(all borrowed)

• Albanian: kurreshtje
• Catalan: curiositat
• English: curiosity
• French: curiosité
• German: Kuriosität
• Galician: curiosidade
• Italian: curiosità
• Norwegian: kuriositet (Bokmål), kuriositet (Nynorsk)
• Portuguese: curiosidade
• Romanian: curiozitate
• Sicilian: curiusità, curiusitati
• Spanish: curiosidad

References

• “curiositas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "curiositas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “curiositas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.