curie

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See also: Curie and CURIE

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859–1906).

Pronunciation

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Noun

curie (plural curies)

  1. 3.7×1010 decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

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Aromanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قوری (korı, koru).

Noun

curíe f (plural curii)

  1. grove, little forest

References

  • Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “413. CURÍE sb. f. pl. curiǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎, put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 105

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From 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
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Italian

Etymology 1

Noun

curie f

  1. plural of curia

Etymology 2

Noun

curie m (invariable)

  1. curie (unit of measure)

Portuguese

Verb

curie

  1. inflection of curiar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French curie.

Noun

curie m (uncountable)

  1. curia

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative curie curieul
genitive-dative curie curieului
vocative curieule

Spanish

Noun

curie m (plural curies)

  1. curie
    Synonym: curio

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