curo

See also: curó, curò, and ĉuro

Catalan

Verb

curo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of curar

Galician

Verb

curo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of curar

Indonesian

Etymology

From Spanish churro.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃuro]
  • Hyphenation: cu‧ro

Noun

curo (plural curo-curo)

  1. (cooking) churro: a fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.ro/
  • Rhymes: -uro
  • Hyphenation: cù‧ro

Verb

curo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of curare

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

By surface analysis, cūra +‎ , from *kʷoizā.

Pronunciation

Verb

cūrō (present infinitive cūrāre, perfect active cūrāvī, supine cūrātum); first conjugation

  1. to arrange, see to, attend to, take care of, look after, ensure, tend to
    Synonyms: accūrō, cū̆stōdiō, servō, videō, cōnsulō, prōcūrō, colō, cōnsultō, respiciō, serviō, caveō
    Rōmānī templa deōrum magnā diligentiā cūrant.
    The Romans care for the temples of the gods with great diligence.
    • Benedictus de Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus
      sedulo curavi, humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere
      I have laboured diligently, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions; but to understand them.
  2. to heal, cure
    similia similibus cūrantur
    likes cure likes
    Medice, cura te ipsum.(Lucas 4:23)
    Physician, heal thyself.(Luke 4:23)
  3. to govern, command, preside over
    Synonym: praesum
  4. to refresh (when occurring with corpus)
  5. to undertake, procure
  6. (reflexive) to trouble (oneself)
  7. (in mercantile language) to take care of money matters, adjust or settle, pay
    Synonyms: pendo, absolvo, persolvo, erogo, solvo

Conjugation

1At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
2The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
3At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • curo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • curo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare
    • to treat as a patient (used of a doctor): aegrotum curare
    • to cure a patient: aegrotum sanare (not curare)
    • not to trouble oneself about a thing: nihil omnino curare
    • to keep house: rem domesticam, familiarem administrare, regere, curare
    • to refresh oneself, minister to one's bodily wants: corpus curare (cibo, vino, somno)
    • (ambiguous) anxiety troubles and torments one: cura sollicitat angitque aliquem
    • (ambiguous) good-bye; farewell: vale or cura ut valeas

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.ɾu/

  • Hyphenation: cu‧ro
  • Rhymes: -uɾu

Verb

curo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of curar

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

curo (Cyrillic spelling цуро)

  1. vocative singular of cura

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuɾo/ [ˈku.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -uɾo
  • Syllabification: cu‧ro

Etymology 1

Adjective

curo (feminine cura, masculine plural curos, feminine plural curas)

  1. of, from or relating to Courland

Noun

curo m (plural curos, feminine cura, feminine plural curas)

  1. native or inhabitant of Courland (usually male)

Etymology 2

Noun

curo m (plural curos)

  1. (Colombia, dated) avocado tree
    Synonyms: aguacate, (Argentina, Chile) palto

See also

Etymology 3

Verb

curo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of curar

Further reading

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh kuraw. By surface analysis, cur (anxiety, pain; blow, beating) +‎ -o, derived from Latin cūra (care; anxiety).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

curo (first-person singular present curaf)

  1. to beat, strike, hit
    Synonyms: bwrw, taro, ergydio
  2. to beat, defeat
    Synonym: trechu

Conjugation

Conjugation (literary)
singular plural impersonal
first second third first second third
present indicative/future curaf curi cura curwn curwch curant curir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/
conditional
curwn curit curai curem curech curent curid
preterite curais curaist curodd curasom curasoch curasant curwyd
pluperfect curaswn curasit curasai curasem curasech curasent curasid, curesid
present subjunctive curwyf curych curo curom curoch curont curer
imperative cura cured curwn curwch curent curer
verbal noun curo
verbal adjectives curedig
curadwy
Conjugation (colloquial)
inflected
colloquial forms
singular plural
first second third first second third
future cura i,
curaf i
curi di curith o/e/hi,
curiff e/hi
curwn ni curwch chi curan nhw
conditional curwn i,
curswn i
curet ti,
curset ti
curai fo/fe/hi,
cursai fo/fe/hi
curen ni,
cursen ni
curech chi,
cursech chi
curen nhw,
cursen nhw
preterite curais i,
cures i
curaist ti,
curest ti
curodd o/e/hi curon ni curoch chi curon nhw
imperative cura curwch

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

Derived terms

  • curfa (beating, thrashing, noun)
  • curiad (beat, noun)

Mutation

Mutated forms of curo
radical soft nasal aspirate
curo guro nghuro churo

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “curo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies