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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 ???????????, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by ?????????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

Adjective

ourie (comparative more ourie, superlative most ourie)

1. (Scotland) Chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.
2. (Scotland) Bleak; melancholy.
   • Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4, "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" (BURNS, ROBERT [1759-1796], Scottish poet)

     Familiar with all the seasons he represents the phases of a northern winter with a frequency characteristic of his clime and of his fortunes; her tempests became anthems in his verse, and the sounding woods "raise his thoughts to Him that walketh on the wings of the wind"; full of pity for the shelterless poor, the "ourie cattle," the "silly sheep," and the "helpless birds," he yet reflects that the bitter blast is not "so unkind as man's ingratitude."