different between vitrine vs curio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /v??t?i?n/, /v??t?i?n/

Noun

vitrine (plural vitrines)

1. A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, or fine merchandise.

   Synonyms: showcase, display case

   • 1896, Edward L. Wilson (ed.), "The Review of the Year Past", Photographic Mosaics, page 82

     Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air.

   • 1919, Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative, volume I, page 256

     The Princess offered us tea and wine, and we talked for a long time, and then she must show us her house, filled with tapestries, paintings and bibelots and, in a vitrine in a room upstairs, a wonderful collection of fans painted by Carlo van Loo […]

Related terms

• vitreous

Translations

Further reading

• Showcase on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• inviter

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?tri.n?/
• Hyphenation: vi?tri?ne
• Rhymes: -in?

Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines, diminutive vitrinetje n)

1. vitrine, showcase
2. shop window

Related terms

• vitrage
• vitriool

French

Etymology

From verrine, remodelled after its etymon, Latin vitrum (“glass”). Synchronically, from vitre (“pane of glass”) +? -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.t?in/

Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines)

1. shop window

   Synonym: devanture

2. (by extension) shopping

3. vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case for displaying articles)

Derived terms

• lèche-vitrine

Related terms

• vitrail

Descendants

Further reading

• “vitrine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• vitrine on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Anagrams

• inviter

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vitrina

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine.

Noun

vitrine f (plural vitrines)

1. shop window (large window at the front of a shop used to display goods)

   Synonym: montra

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