curiositas
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kuː.riˈoː.sɪ.taːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ku.riˈɔː.s̬i.t̪as]
Noun
cūriōsitās f (genitive cūriōsitātis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cūriōsitās | cūriōsitātēs |
| genitive | cūriōsitātis | cūriōsitātum |
| dative | cūriōsitātī | cūriōsitātibus |
| accusative | cūriōsitātem | cūriōsitātēs |
| ablative | cūriōsitāte | cūriōsitātibus |
| vocative | cūriōsitās | cūriōsitātēs |
Descendants
Descendants
(all borrowed)
- Albanian: kurreshtje
- Catalan: curiositat
- English: curiosity
- French: curiosité
- German: Kuriosität
- Galician: curiosidade
- Italian: curiosità
- Norwegian: kuriositet (Bokmål), kuriositet (Nynorsk)
- Portuguese: curiosidade
- Romanian: curiozitate
- Sicilian: curiusità, curiusitati
- Spanish: curiosidad
References
- “curiositas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "curiositas", 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)
- curiositas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.