Curaçao

• Curacao

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, literally from curação (“cure, healing”) but probably a transcription of a Lokono endonym.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːɹəsaʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkuːɹəˈsaʊ/

Curaçao

2. An island and constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela.

• curacoa, curaçoa

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪraso]
• Rhymes: -aso
• Hyphenation: Cu‧ra‧çao

Curaçao n (relational adjective curaçaoský)

1. Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela)

• “Curaçao”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Curaçao”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym but sometimes folk-etymologized as derived from Portuguese Ilha da Curação (“Isle of Healing”) from curação (“cure, healing”) in reference to the island's use as a place of recovery for sailors sick with scurvy and other ailments or from modification of coração (“heart”) in reference to its supposed importance in local trade.

• IPA^(key): /kyːraːˈsɑu̯/, /kuːraːˈsɑu̯/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Cu‧ra‧çao

Curaçao n

1. Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela)

From Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym.

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁa.so/
• Homophone: curaçao

Curaçao m

1. Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela)

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym.

• IPA^(key): /ky.raˈsaʊ̯/, /ky.raˈsaː.o/

• Audio:

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Curaçao n (proper noun, genitive Curaçaos or (optionally with an article) Curaçao)

1. Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela)

Curaçao m (strong, genitive Curaçaos or Curaçao, plural Curaçaos or Curaçao)

1. curaçao (liqueur)

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym. Doublet of Kòrsou.

Curaçao

1. Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela)

   Synonym: Kòrsou

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Portuguese curação.

• IPA^(key): /kju.raˈsa.ɔ/
• Rhymes: -aɔ
• Syllabification: Cu‧ra‧ça‧o

Curaçao n (indeclinable)

1. Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela)

• Curaçao in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Curaçao m

1. obsolete spelling of Curazao