curio
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Clipping of curiosity, 1851.[1] Compare cabinet of curiosities and French objet de curiosité.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
curio (plural curios)
- A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.
- 2013, Joan Lee Faust, The New York Times Garden Book, Revised:
- Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention.
- 2012 March, David Graeber, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”, in The Baffler[1]:
- Video telephony is just about the only new technology from that particular movie that has appeared—and it was technically possible when the movie was showing. 2001 can be seen as a curio, but what about Star Trek?
- 2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club[2]:
- upon his arrival, Lewis discovers that his uncle’s place is no threadbare bachelor pad. It’s a creaky old Victorian mansion, full of overstuffed chairs, flocked wallpaper, stained glass, creepy carnival curios, and dozens and dozens of clocks.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
strange and interesting object
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See also[edit]
See also: Thesaurus:trinket.
References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “curio”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
Galician[edit]
Noun[edit]
curio m (uncountable)
Italian[edit]
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Cm | |
| Previous: americio (Am) | |
| Next: berkelio (Bk) | |
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
curio m (plural curi)
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From cūria (“curia”) + -ō (suffix forming masculine nouns).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkuː.ri.oː/, [ˈkuːrioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ri.o/, [ˈkuːrio]
Noun[edit]
cūriō m (genitive cūriōnis); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cūriō | cūriōnēs |
| Genitive | cūriōnis | cūriōnum |
| Dative | cūriōnī | cūriōnibus |
| Accusative | cūriōnem | cūriōnēs |
| Ablative | cūriōne | cūriōnibus |
| Vocative | cūriō | cūriōnēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ri.oː/, [ˈkʊrioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ri.o/, [ˈkuːrio]
Noun[edit]
curiō
References[edit]
- “curio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- curio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- curio 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)
- “curio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- curio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “curio”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “curio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Cm | |
| Previous: americio (Am) | |
| Next: berkelio (Bk) | |
Borrowed from English curium, after Pierre and Marie Curie + -io.
Noun[edit]
curio m (uncountable)
See also[edit]
curio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from English curie or French curie, named after Pierre and Marie Curie.
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
curio m (plural curios)
Further reading[edit]
- “curio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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