curio

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkjʊə̯ɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɜːɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɔːɹiˌəʊ̯/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkjə̯ɹiˌoʊ̯/

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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, David Graeber, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”, in The Baffler‎^[1]:

     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^[2], archived from the original on 20 September 2018:

     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.

• curiosity
• curious

See also: Thesaurus:trinket.

• Cú Roí

curio m (uncountable)

1. curium

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

curio m (plural curi)

1. (chemistry) curium

• cuori, urico

From cūria (“curia”) +‎ -ō (suffix forming masculine nouns).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.ri.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.ri.o]

cūriō m (genitive cūriōnis); third declension

1. the priest of a curia
2. a herald

Third-declension noun.

• cūriōnātus
• cūriōnius

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊ.ri.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.ri.o]

curiō

1. dative/ablative singular of curium

• “curio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “curio”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman 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

curio

1. first-person singular present indicative of curiar

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

Borrowed from English curium, after Pierre and Marie Curie + -io.

curio m (uncountable)

1. curium

• curio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Borrowed from English curie or French curie, named after Pierre and Marie Curie.

• curie (obsolete)

curio m (plural curios)

1. curie

• “curio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024