different between curiosity vs curio

English

Etymology

From Middle English curiosite, variant of curiouste, from Anglo-Norman curiouseté, from Latin c?ri?sit?tem, from c?ri?sus. Surface analysis curious +? -ity; see -osity.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kyoo?r"??s'?t?, IPA^(key): /?kj??????s?ti/

Noun

curiosity (countable and uncountable, plural curiosities)

1. (uncountable) Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring. [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: inquisitiveness

   Antonym: ignorance

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre
2. A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest. [from 17th c.]

3. (obsolete) Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1631, John Smith, Advertisements, in Kupperman 1988, p. 81:

     wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like curiosity, but the most part farre much worse workmanship […]

Derived terms

• curiosity killed the cat

Related terms

• curious

Translations

References

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