cura

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Rhymes: -uɾa

Inherited from Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

cura f (plural cures)

1. care (close attention; concern; responsibility)

   amb molta cura ― with great care; very carefully

2. care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
3. cure (a method that restores good health)

   Synonyms: guariment, guarició

• acurat
• curós

• curar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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cura

1. third-person singular past historic of curer

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

cura f (plural curas)

1. care (close attention; concern; responsibility)
2. care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
3. cure (a method that restores good health)

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃúː.ɽàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

cūrā̀ (grade 1)

1. to knead into balls

• curi

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: cù‧ra

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

cura f (plural cure, diminutive curétta (“cure”) or curettìna (“cure”))

1. care
2. accuracy
3. cure
4. treatment (medical)

• curare

cura

1. inflection of curare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• ruca

From Latin cura.

cura f (plural cures)

1. care
2. treatment

• coira, coera (archaic)

From Proto-Italic *kʷoizā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ra/,

cūra f (genitive cūrae); first declension

1. care, concern, thought

   Synonyms: cultūra, sollicitūdō, tūtēla, cūrātiō

2. pains, industry, diligence, exertion

   Synonyms: cōnātus, opus, opera, labor, studium, mōlīmen, intēnsiō, mōlēs, pulvis

3. anxiety, grief, sorrow

   Synonyms: maestitia, maeror, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, aegritūdō, dēsīderium, sollicitūdō

   Antonyms: dēlectātiō, lascīvia, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās

4. trouble, solicitude

   Synonyms: difficultās, īnfortūnium, mōlēs

   • c. 50 C.E., Seneca the Younger, Phaedra, 607

     Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.

     Trivial concerns talk, great ones are speechless.

   • Vergilius, Aeneis, Book VI, line 85

     Mitte hanc de pectore curam.

     Dismiss this anxiety from your heart.

5. attention, management, administration, charge, care; command, office; guardianship

   Synonyms: mūnus, officium, ministerium, negōtium, cūrātiō

6. written work, writing

   Synonym: opus

7. (medicine) medical attendance, healing

   Synonym: cūrātiō

8. (agriculture) rearing, culture, care
9. (rare) an attendant, guardian, observer

First-declension noun.

• (antonym(s) of “care”): incūria

cūrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cūrō

• “cura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
    
  • to expend great labour on a thing: operam (laborem, curam) in or ad aliquid impendere
    
  • to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici
    
  • somebody, something is never absent from my thoughts: aliquis, aliquid mihi curae or cordi est
    
  • to have laid something to heart; to take an interest in a thing: curae habere aliquid
    
  • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas et cogitationes in rem publicam conferre
    
  • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas in rei publicae salute defigere (Phil. 14. 5. 13)
    
  • (ambiguous) anxiety troubles and torments one: cura sollicitat angitque aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) good-bye; farewell: vale or cura ut valeas
    
• “cura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cura in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “cura”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “cura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

cura f (plural curas)

1. cure (a method, device or medication that restores good health)
2. healing (the process of restoring good health)

• curar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Latin cūrāre, present active infinitive of cūrō, possibly influenced by colāre.

a cura (third-person singular present cură, past participle curat) 1st conj.

1. (rare) to clean

   Synonym: curăța

2. (regional) to clear, eliminate, deforest

• curat

• curătură

Borrowed from German kurieren, itself borrowed from the same Latin root as the above.

a cura (third-person singular present curează, past participle curat) 1st conj.

1. (rare) to cure, treat an illness, care for

   Synonyms: îngriji, trata

• cură

From Proto-Bantu *-túda (“to hammer; to forge”).

-cúra (infinitive gucúra, perfective -cúze)

1. to forge from metal

• umucuzi

Either from earlier cuca (“female genitalia”) or from Polish córka, córa (“daughter”) (cognate with Serbo-Croatian kći (“daughter”)).

• IPA^(key): /t͡sûra/
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra

cȕra f (Cyrillic spelling цу̏ра)

1. girl (young woman)
2. girlfriend (a female partner)

   Brate, cura ti je luđakinja. ― Bro, your girlfriend is a nutcase.

• dečko
• momak (Serbian)

• “cura”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾa/

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: cu‧ra

Inherited from Latin cūra (“care, concern”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

cura f (plural curas)

1. cure (something that restores good health)
2. (Bolivia, Chile, colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin cūra (“monastic office holder, obedientiary”) from Latin cūra (“warden, administrator”) (originally "care, concern, public administration"; see above).

cura m (plural curas)

1. priest; curate

   Synonyms: párroco, sacerdote

   Coordinate term: vicario

Unknown.

cura f (plural curas)

1. (Colombia, dated) avocado

   Synonyms: aguacate, (Philippines) avocado, (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) palta

cura f (plural curas)

1. female equivalent of curo (“someone from Courland”)

cura f

1. feminine singular of curo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Ottoman Turkish جوره (cura) from either Persian جوره (jura) or Persian جره (jarra).

cura (definite accusative curayı, plural curalar)

1. (music) a stringed musical instrument

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cura”, in Nişanyan Sözlük