different between curio vs curie

English

Etymology

Clipping of curiosity, 1851. Compare cabinet of curiosities and French objet de curiosité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kj????i????/, /?kj???i????/, /?kj???i????/

Noun

curio (plural curios)

1. A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.

Related terms

• curiosity
• curious

Translations

See also

See also: Thesaurus:trinket.

References

Anagrams

• Cú Roí

Galician

Noun

curio m (uncountable)

1. curium

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku.rjo/

Noun

curio m (plural curi)

1. (chemistry) curium

Anagrams

• cuori
• urico

Latin

Noun

curi?

1. dative singular of curium
2. ablative singular of curium

References

• curio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• curio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• curio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• curio in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• curio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?jo/, [?ku.?jo]

Etymology 1

From English curium, after Pierre and Marie Curie + -io.

Noun

curio m (uncountable)

1. curium

See also

• curio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Etymology 2

From English curie or French curie, named after Pierre and Marie Curie.

Alternative forms

• curie (obsolete)

Noun

curio m (plural curios)

1. curie

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