criatura

Borrowed from Latin creatūra.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kɾi.əˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kɾi.aˈtu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa

criatura f (plural criatures)

1. creature (living being, especially an animal)

   Synonym: creatura

2. small child, infant

   Synonym: infant

   • 2025 February 7, Liliana Arroyo Moliner, “El 'sharenting' i el dret de les criatures a ser anònimes”, in Ara‎^[1]:

     També és diferent penjar la criatura pintant, només mostrant la mà amb el color agafat.

     It's also different to upload the child painting, only showing their hand with the color they've picked up.

• “criatura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “criatura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “criatura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “criatura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Spanish criatura. The Ternateño and Caviteño usage is influenced by Portuguese criança.

• IPA^(key): /kɾjaˈtuɾa/, [kɾjaˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: cria‧tu‧ra

criatura

1. creature
2. (Caviteño, Ternateño) child

   Synonyms: (Zamboangueño) bata, (Zamboangueño) niño

• creatura (pre-standardization spelling)

From Old Galician-Portuguese creatura, from Latin creatūra, from creō (“create, make”).

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cri‧a‧tu‧ra

criatura f (plural criaturas)

1. creature, beast

   Synonyms: animal, besta, bicho, ser vivo

2. person

   Synonyms: pessoa, ser humano, homem, humano

From Latin creatūra. Cognate with English creature.

• IPA^(key): /kɾjaˈtuɾa/ [kɾjaˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cria‧tu‧ra

criatura f (plural criaturas)

1. creature (living being), critter
2. small child, infant
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 160:

     Durante el embarazo, la mujer no debe mirar a ninguna persona fea o que tenga algún defecto físico, ni fijar su atención en pinturas, animales u objetos que se señalen por alguna deformidad, pues corre el peligro que la criatura resulte igualmente imperfecta

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “criatura”, 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