curiosus
Latin
Etymology
From cūra (“care, concern, worry”) + -osus (“suffix forming adjectives from nouns”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kuː.riˈoː.sus/, [kuːriˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ku.riˈo.sus/, [kuriˈɔːs̬us]
Adjective
cūriōsus (feminine cūriōsa, neuter cūriōsum, comparative cūriōsior); first/second-declension adjective
- Careful, diligent, thoughtful, devoted.
- Elaborate, complicated.
- That injures himself by care; careworn, emaciated, wasted, lean.
- (in a good sense) Curious, inquisitive.
- (in a bad sense) Meddlesome, officious, prying, interfering, curious, inquisitive.
- 1st c. BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum :
- Etenim si delectamur cum scribimus, quis est tam invidus qui ab eo nos abducat? [...] Sic isti curiosi, quos offendit noster minime nobis iniucundus labor.
- Indeed if I enjoy writing, who would be so spiteful as to keep me from it? [...] Thus are these meddlesome individuals to whom this my not at all unpleasant (to me) endeavor is offensive.
- Etenim si delectamur cum scribimus, quis est tam invidus qui ab eo nos abducat? [...] Sic isti curiosi, quos offendit noster minime nobis iniucundus labor.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cūriōsus | cūriōsa | cūriōsum | cūriōsī | cūriōsae | cūriōsa | |
| Genitive | cūriōsī | cūriōsae | cūriōsī | cūriōsōrum | cūriōsārum | cūriōsōrum | |
| Dative | cūriōsō | cūriōsō | cūriōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | cūriōsum | cūriōsam | cūriōsum | cūriōsōs | cūriōsās | cūriōsa | |
| Ablative | cūriōsō | cūriōsā | cūriōsō | cūriōsīs | |||
| Vocative | cūriōse | cūriōsa | cūriōsum | cūriōsī | cūriōsae | cūriōsa | |
Derived terms
- cūriōsē
- cūriōsitās
- cūriōsulus
- incūriōsus
Related terms
- cūra
- cūrābilis
- cūragendārius
- cūrāns
- cūrātē
- cūrātiō
- cūrātor
- cūrātōria
- cūrātōrīcius
- cūrātōrius
- cūrātrīx
- cūrātūra
- cūrātus
- cūritō
- cūrius
- cūrō
Descendants
- Catalan: curiós
- → Dutch: curiosum
- → English: curious, curiosum
- → French: curieux
- → Danish: kuriøs
- → German: Kuriosum
- → Hungarian: kuriózum
- Italian: curioso
- Norman: tchuthieux (Jersey)
- → Polish: kuriozum
- Portuguese: curioso
- Romanian: curios
- Spanish: curioso
Noun
cūriōsus m (genitive cūriōsī); second declension
- One who pries; a spy or scout; secret police, informer.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cūriōsus | cūriōsī |
| Genitive | cūriōsī | cūriōsōrum |
| Dative | cūriōsō | cūriōsīs |
| Accusative | cūriōsum | cūriōsōs |
| Ablative | cūriōsō | cūriōsīs |
| Vocative | cūriōse | cūriōsī |
References
- “curiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- curiosus 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)
- curiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette