creatura

Borrowed from Latin creatūra.

creatura f (plural creatures)

1. creature (a living being, especially an animal)

   Synonym: criatura

• crear
• criatura

• “creatura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “creatura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Derived from Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

• IPA^(key): /kre.aˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: cre‧a‧tù‧ra

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creatura f (plural creature, diminutive creaturina, augmentative creaturóna)

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, archived from the original on 8 March 2016, 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. (figurative) protege

• creatura in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• creatura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• carature

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kre.aːˈtuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kre.aˈt̪uː.ra]

creātūra f (genitive creātūrae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. A created thing; creature.
2. Creation

First-declension noun.

creātūra

1. inflection of creātūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

creātūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of creātūrus

• “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.

Derived from Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

• IPA^(key): /kɾe.a.ˈtu.ɾa/

creatura f (plural creaturas)

1. creature, living being
2. a newborn child

• Galician: criatura
• Portuguese: criatura

Borrowed from Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

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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creatura f (plural creaturas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of criatura.

This spelling coexisted with criatura.

• IPA^(key): /kɾeaˈtuɾa/ [kɾe.aˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cre‧a‧tu‧ra

creatura f (plural creaturas)

1. (formal) creature

   Synonym: criatura

• “creatura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024