curatio

curatio

Latin

Etymology

From cūrō +‎ -tiō.

Noun

cūrātiō f (genitive cūrātiōnis); third declension

1. treatment, care, operation (medical, surgical)
2. administration, office (public)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cūrātiō	cūrātiōnēs
Genitive	cūrātiōnis	cūrātiōnum
Dative	cūrātiōnī	cūrātiōnibus
Accusative	cūrātiōnem	cūrātiōnēs
Ablative	cūrātiōne	cūrātiōnibus
Vocative	cūrātiō	cūrātiōnēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: curació (learned)
• → English: curation (learned)
• Old French: curacion
  • → Middle English: curacioun, curacion
    • English: curation
  • Middle French: curation
• → Polish: kuracja (learned)
• → Portuguese: curação (learned)
• → Romanian: curăciune (learned)
• → Spanish: curación (learned)

References

• “curatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • method of treatment: curationes