cure
French
noun
Definitions
- (archaic) care, concern
- (obsolete) healing, recovery
- (medicine) treatment; cure
- (religion) vicarage, presbytery
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French cure inherited from Old French cure (cure of souls, healing, cure, care) inherited from Latin cūra (care, concern, anxiety, worry, medical attendance, grief, cure) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (heed, observe).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷeys-
Gloss
heed, observe
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cura Latin
- curiosus Latin
- curo Latin
- cūra Latin
- cūriōsus Latin
- incuria Latin
- scūrō Latin
- securus Latin
- tricurium Latin
- cura Italian
- curiste French
- cura Spanish, Castilian
- *derḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷeys- Proto-Indo-European
- cura Portuguese
- kur Swedish
- चुर् Sanskrit
- cure Middle English
- cure Old French
- cura Catalan, Valencian
- cura Galician
- curo Welsh
- cure Middle Dutch
- cure Middle French
- *ad-kʷiseti, *kʷiseti Proto-Celtic
- *derk- Proto-Celtic
- *kʷoizā Proto-Italic
- cure Friulian