curaçao
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Curaçao liqueur
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch curaçao, named for the island Curaçao in the Dutch Antilles, ultimately probably a Portuguese transcription of a Lokono endonym but literally equivalent to Portuguese curação (“cure, healing”), from Latin cūrātiō (“cure”), from cūrāre (“to cure”) + -ātiō (“-ation: forming abstract nouns”), from cūra (“attention, care”) + -āre (“forming verbs”), q.v.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkjuːɹəsaʊ/, /ˈkjuːɹəsəʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsaʊ/, /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsoʊ/, /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsaʊ/, /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsoʊ/
Noun
curaçao (countable and uncountable, plural curaçaos)
- A liqueur made from eau de vie, sugar, and dried peel of sweet and sour oranges, naturally colorless but typically artificially colored blue.
Translations
liqueur
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References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch curaçao, named after the island Curaçao.
Pronunciation
Noun
curaçao m (plural curaçaos)
Further reading
- “curaçao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.