curaçao

• curacao
• curacoa, curaçoa (both dated)

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch curaçao, named for the island Curaçao in the Dutch Antilles, ultimately probably a Portuguese transcription of a Lokono endonym but literally equivalent to Portuguese curação (“cure, healing”), from Latin cūrātiōnem (“cure”), from cūrō (“to cure”) + -ātiō (“-ation”, suffix forming abstract nouns), from cūra (“attention, care”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix), q.v.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːɹəsaʊ/, /ˈkjuːɹəsəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsaʊ/, /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsoʊ/, /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsaʊ/, /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsoʊ/

curaçao (countable and uncountable, plural curaçaos)

1. A liqueur made from eau de vie, sugar, and dried peel of sweet and sour oranges, naturally colorless but typically artificially colored blue.

• “curaçao” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.
• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• curacoa, curaçoa

Borrowed from Dutch curaçao, named after the island Curaçao.

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁa.so/

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curaçao m (plural curaçaos)

1. the orange peel-flavored liqueur curaçao

• “curaçao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.