cura

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

Inherited from Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

cura f (plural cures)

1. care (close attention; concern; responsibility)

   amb molta cura ― with great care; very carefully

2. care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
3. cure (a method that restores good health)

   Synonyms: guariment, guarició

• acurat
• curós

• curar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

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cura

1. third-person singular past historic of curer

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

cura f (plural curas)

1. care (close attention; concern; responsibility)
2. care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
3. cure (a method that restores good health)

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃúː.ɽàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃúː.ɽàː]

cūrā̀ (grade 1)

1. to knead into balls

• curi

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: cù‧ra

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

cura f (plural cure, diminutive curétta (“cure”) or curettìna (“cure”))

1. care
2. accuracy
3. cure
4. treatment (medical)

• curare

cura

1. inflection of curare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• ruca

From Latin cura.

cura f (plural cures)

1. care
2. treatment

• coira, coera (archaic)

From Proto-Italic *kʷoizā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

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

cūra f (genitive cūrae); first declension

1. care, concern, thought

   Synonyms: cultūra, sollicitūdō, tūtēla, cūrātiō

2. pains, industry, diligence, exertion

   Synonyms: cōnātus, opus, opera, labor, studium, mōlīmen, intēnsiō, mōlēs, pulvis

3. anxiety, grief, sorrow

   Synonyms: maestitia, maeror, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, aegritūdō, dēsīderium, sollicitūdō

   Antonyms: dēlectātiō, lascīvia, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās

4. trouble, solicitude

   Synonyms: difficultās, īnfortūnium, mōlēs

   • c. 50 C.E., Seneca the Younger, Phaedra, 607

     Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.

     Trivial concerns talk, great ones are speechless.

   • Vergilius, Aeneis, Book VI, line 85

     Mitte hanc de pectore curam.

     Dismiss this anxiety from your heart.

5. attention, management, administration, charge, care; command, office; guardianship

   Synonyms: mūnus, officium, ministerium, negōtium, cūrātiō

6. written work, writing

   Synonym: opus

7. (medicine) medical attendance, healing

   Synonym: cūrātiō

8. (agriculture) rearing, culture, care
9. (rare) an attendant, guardian, observer

First-declension noun.

• (antonym(s) of “care”): incūria

cūrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cūrō

• “cura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cura", 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)
• cura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
    
  • to expend great labour on a thing: operam (laborem, curam) in or ad aliquid impendere
    
  • to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici
    
  • somebody, something is never absent from my thoughts: aliquis, aliquid mihi curae or cordi est
    
  • to have laid something to heart; to take an interest in a thing: curae habere aliquid
    
  • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas et cogitationes in rem publicam conferre
    
  • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas in rei publicae salute defigere (Phil. 14. 5. 13)
    
  • (ambiguous) anxiety troubles and torments one: cura sollicitat angitque aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) good-bye; farewell: vale or cura ut valeas
    
• “cura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cura in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “cura”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “cura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

cura f (plural curas)

1. cure (a method, device or medication that restores good health)
2. healing (the process of restoring good health)

• curar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Latin cūrāre, possibly influenced by colāre.

a cura (third-person singular present cură, past participle curat) 1st conjugation

1. (rare) to clean

   Synonym: curăța

2. (regional) to clear, eliminate, deforest

• curat

• curătură

Borrowed from German kurieren, itself borrowed from the same Latin root as the above.

a cura (third-person singular present curează, past participle curat) 1st conjugation

1. (rare) to cure, treat an illness, care for

   Synonyms: îngriji, trata

• cură

From Proto-Bantu *-túda (“to hammer; to forge”).

-cúra (infinitive gucúra, perfective -cúze)

1. to forge from metal

• umucuzi

Either from earlier cuca (“female genitalia”) or from Polish córka, córa (“daughter”) (cognate with Serbo-Croatian kći (“daughter”)).

• IPA^(key): /t͡sûra/
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra

cȕra f (Cyrillic spelling цу̏ра)

1. girl (young woman)
2. girlfriend (a female partner)

   Brate, cura ti je luđakinja. ― Bro, your girlfriend is a nutcase.

• dečko
• momak (Serbian)

• “cura”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾa/ [ˈku.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cu‧ra

Inherited from Latin cūra (“care, concern”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

cura f (plural curas)

1. cure (something that restores good health)
2. (Bolivia, Chile, colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin cūra (“monastic office holder, obedientiary”) from Latin cūra (“warden, administrator”) (originally "care, concern, public administration"; see above).

cura m (plural curas)

1. priest; curate

   Synonyms: párroco, sacerdote

   Coordinate term: vicario

Unknown.

cura f (plural curas)

1. (Colombia, dated) avocado

   Synonyms: aguacate, (Philippines) avocado, (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) palta

cura f (plural curas)

1. female equivalent of curo (“someone from Courland”)

cura f

1. feminine singular of curo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cura”, 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

From Ottoman Turkish جوره (cura) from either Persian جوره (jura) or Persian جره (jarra).

cura (definite accusative curayı, plural curalar)

1. (music) a stringed musical instrument

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cura”, in Nişanyan Sözlük