curiosus
Latin
adj
Definitions
- 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.
Etymology
Suffix from Latin cūra (care, concern, anxiety, worry, medical attendance, grief, cure).
Origin
Latin
cūra
Gloss
care, concern, anxiety, worry, medical attendance, grief, cure
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
戚
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- curo Latin
- cūra Latin
- cūriōsus Latin
- incuria Latin
- percuriosus Latin
- securus Latin
- tricurium Latin
- cura Italian
- cura Spanish, Castilian
- *kʷeys- Proto-Indo-European
- cura Portuguese
- kur Swedish
- curious Middle English
- cure Old French
- curios Old French
- cura Catalan, Valencian
- cura Galician
- curo Welsh
- cure Friulian