curie
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859–1906).
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
curie (plural curies)
- 3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.
Derived terms
Translations
unit of radioactivity
Further reading
Anagrams
Aromanian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish قوری (korı, koru).
Noun
curíe f (plural curii)
References
- Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “413. CURÍE sb. f. pl. curiǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot][1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 105
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ky.ʁi/
Etymology 1
Noun
curie f (plural curies)
- curia (all meanings)
Etymology 2
From Curie; Named after Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906), physicist.
Noun
curie m (plural curies)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “curie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Noun
curie f
- plural of curia
Etymology 2
Noun
curie m (invariable)
- curie (unit of measure)
Portuguese
Verb
curie
- inflection of curiar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
curie m (uncountable)
Declension
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | curie | curieul |
| genitive-dative | curie | curieului |
| vocative | curieule | |
Spanish
Noun
curie m (plural curies)
Further reading
- “curie”, 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