curio

curio

See also: Curio and cúrio

English

Etymology

Clipping of curiosity, 1851.[1] Compare cabinet of curiosities and French objet de curiosité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjʊə̯ɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɜːɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɔːɹiˌəʊ̯/

Noun

curio (plural curios)

1. A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.
   • 2013, Joan Lee Faust, The New York Times Garden Book, Revised:

     Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention.

   • 2012 March 1, David Graeber, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”, in The Baffler‎:

     Video telephony is just about the only new technology from that particular movie that has appeared—and it was technically possible when the movie was showing. 2001 can be seen as a curio, but what about Star Trek?

   • 2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     upon his arrival, Lewis discovers that his uncle’s place is no threadbare bachelor pad. It’s a creaky old Victorian mansion, full of overstuffed chairs, flocked wallpaper, stained glass, creepy carnival curios, and dozens and dozens of clocks.

Related terms

• curiosity
• curious

Translations

strange and interesting object

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 古玩 (zh) (gǔwán), 古董 (zh) (gǔdǒng) Czech: kuriozita f Dutch: curiosum (nl) n, curiositeit (nl) f Finnish: kummallinen esine, erikoisuus (fi), kummallisuus (fi), kuriositeetti (fi) Japanese: 骨董品 (こっとうひん, kottōhin) Korean: 골동품(骨董品) (ko) (goldongpum) Maori: onge Romanian: ciudățenie (ro) f, curiozitate (ro) f Russian: дико́вина (ru) f (dikóvina), курьёз (ru) m (kurʹjóz), ре́дкость (ru) f (rédkostʹ) Spanish: curiosidad (es) f, objeto curioso m

See also

See also: Thesaurus:trinket.

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “curio”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Cú Roí

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Galician

Noun

curio m (uncountable)

1. curium

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Italian

Chemical element
Cm
Previous: americio (Am)
Next: berkelio (Bk)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.rjo/
• Rhymes: -urjo
• Hyphenation: cù‧rio

Noun

curio m (plural curi)

1. (chemistry) curium

Anagrams

• cuori, urico

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Latin

Noun

curiō

1. dative/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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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, 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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾjo/ [ˈku.ɾjo]
• Rhymes: -uɾjo
• Syllabification: cu‧rio

Etymology 1

Chemical element
Cm
Previous: americio (Am)
Next: berkelio (Bk)

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

Further reading

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