curar

From Latin cūrāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kuˈɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kuˈɾaɾ]

curar (first-person singular present curo, first-person singular preterite curí, past participle curat)

1. to take care of
2. (modern) to cure, heal

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese curar, from Latin cūrāre.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈɾaɾ/

curar (first-person singular present curo, first-person singular preterite curei, past participle curado)

1. (archaic) to heed, care

   Synonym: coidar

2. to cure, heal

   Synonym: sandar

3. to cure, preserve

   Synonyms: preservar, secar

• recuperar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “curar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “curar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “curar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “curar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “curar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “curar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “curar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin cūrāre.

curar (first-person singular present curo, first-person singular preterite curei, past participle curado)

1. (transitive) to cure; to heal (restore to health)

   Synonym: sanar

From Latin cūrāre.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈɾaɾ/ [kuˈɾaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: cu‧rar

curar (first-person singular present curo, first-person singular preterite curé, past participle curado)

1. (archaic, ambitransitive, also pronominal) to care, heed, study, strive, seek, work
   • (Can we date this quote?), Santillana, Obras, published 1852, page 46:

     Ca los que buscan façienda / non curando / de virtudes van buscando / su contienda / sin reparo nin emienda / es tal dapño / fijo guarda tal engaño / non te prenda.

     Forthy they who seek doings, / not caring / of virtues, go seeking / their content / with nor repair nor amend / 't is such loss / son, ward such wile / thee do not hend.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Andrés Bernáldez, Historia de los Reyes Católicos D. Fernando y D.ª Isabel:

     no los pudieron alcanzar a causa que no curaron mucho de los seguir.

     they couldn't get them because they didn't care much to follow them.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “act 9”, in La Celestina:

     Entra, no cures, que todos somos de casa.

     Enter, care not, that we all are at home.

     (literally, “Enter, care not, that we all are of home.”)

   • (Can we date this quote?), Fr. L. de León, edited by P. Merino, Obras, volume 4, published 1885, page 6:

     Vmd. reciba en todo esto mi voluntad, que lo demás no me satisface mucho, ni curo que satisfaga a otros.

     Receive you in all this my willingness, as the rest doesn't satisfy me much, nor I care that it satisfy others.

2. (ambitransitive, also pronominal) to cure, heal (body, soul, mind, heart); nurse, treat, dress (a wound)

   Synonym: sanar

   • (Can we date this quote?), Libros de Caballerías, volume 11, Bailly/Bailliere, Nueva Biblioteca de Autores Españoles, published 1908, page 28:

     Estuvieron en la ciudad de Esbrique algunos días curándose de las heridas.

     They were in the city of Esbrique some days healing of the wounds.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Lope de Vega, Comedias, volume 24, Rivas, page 115:

     Tiene Valencia un hospital famoso / adonde los frenéticos se curan / con gran limpieza y celo cuidadoso.

     Valencia has a famous hospital / where the frantic are cured / with great cleanness and careful zeal.

3. to remedy (an evil)
4. to clean, cleanse
5. to prepare
6. to cure, salt, smoke
7. to ripen
8. to dress, tan (animal hides)
9. to season, dry (wood)
10. to bleach (linen)
11. to intoxicate, make drunk
12. (reflexive, Southern Cone) to get drunk
13. to think
14. (colloquial, Mexico, reflexive, usually in a mocking way, used with la) to laugh, to burst out laughing

    Me caí y mi amigo se la estaba curando.

    I fell down and my friend was laughing at me.

• blanquear
• decolorar

• “curar”, 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 Latin cūrāre. Compare Italian curare.

curar

1. (transitive, medicine) to cure (a disease, etc.)
2. (transitive) to clean

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.