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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859–1906).

Noun

curie (plural curies)

1. 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

Derived terms

Further reading

• curie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Euric, urcei, ureic

Aromanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (kor?, koru).

Noun

curíe f (plural curii)

1. grove, little forest

References

• ???????????, ?????????? (2007) , “413. CURÍE sb. f. pl. curi?”, in ?????? ??????????, ????? ????????, editors, ???????? ???????? ?? ???????????, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by ????????? ????????, ??????: ?????????? ????????? ?? ??????? ? ???????????, ?ISBN, page 105

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.?i/

Etymology 1

Latin curia

Noun

curie f (plural curies)

1. curia (all meanings)

Etymology 2

From Curie; Named after Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906), physicist.

Noun

curie m (plural curies)

1. curie

Derived terms

Anagrams

• cuire, cuiré

Further reading

• “curie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology 1

Noun

curie f

1. plural of curia

Etymology 2

Noun

curie m (invariable)

1. curie (unit of measure)

Romanian

Etymology

From French curie.

Noun

curie m (uncountable)

1. curia

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kju?ti/
• Rhymes: -u?ti

Etymology 1

cute +? -ie.

Noun

cutie (plural cuties)

1. A cute person or animal.
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     Before every visit, I'm convinced that the tourists will have used all the napkins, the pigeons will have roosted beneath the chairs, the sidewalk musicians will be playing classic rock, the servers will all be high school cuties […]

Usage notes

• Often used as a term of endearment.

Translations

Derived terms

• cutie pie

Etymology 2

A brand name of a particular cultivar of orange.

Noun

cutie (plural cuties)

1. A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand.
2. (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma.

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (kutu, kut?), from Greek ????? (koutí).

Noun

cutie f (plural cutii)

1. box (rectangular container)

Declension