curiositas
Latin
Etymology
cūriōsus + -tās.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kuː.riˈoː.si.taːs/, [kuːriˈoːs̠ɪt̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ku.riˈo.si.tas/, [kuriˈɔːs̬it̪äs]
Noun
cūriōsitās f (genitive cūriōsitātis); third declension
- curiosity, inquisitiveness
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cūriōsitās | cūriōsitātēs |
| Genitive | cūriōsitātis | cūriōsitātum |
| Dative | cūriōsitātī | cūriōsitātibus |
| Accusative | cūriōsitātem | cūriōsitātēs |
| Ablative | cūriōsitāte | cūriōsitātibus |
| Vocative | cūriōsitās | cūriōsitātēs |
Descendants
Descendants of curiositas in other languages
(all borrowed)
- Albanian: kurreshtje
- Catalan: curiositat
- English: curiosity
- French: curiosité
- German: Kuriosität
- Galician: curiosidade
- Italian: curiosità
- Norwegian: kuriositet (Bokmål), kuriositet (Nynorsk)
- Portuguese: curiosidade
- Romanian: curiozitate
- Spanish: curiosidad
References
- “curiositas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- curiositas 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)
- curiositas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette