curio - Wiktionary, the free dictionary


Article Images

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈkjʊə̯ɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɜːɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɔːɹiˌəʊ̯/

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.

strange and interesting object

See also: Thesaurus:trinket.

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “curio”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

curio m (uncountable)

  1. curium
Chemical element
Cm
Previous: americio (Am)
Next: berkelio (Bk)
  • IPA(key): /ˈku.rjo/
  • Rhymes: -urjo
  • Hyphenation: cù‧rio

curio m (plural curi)

  1. (chemistry) curium

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

cūriō m (genitive cūriōnis); third declension

  1. the priest of a curia
  2. a herald

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cūriō cūriōnēs
Genitive cūriōnis cūriōnum
Dative cūriōnī cūriōnibus
Accusative cūriōnem cūriōnēs
Ablative cūriōne cūriōnibus
Vocative cūriō cūriōnēs

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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 (2016 July 16 (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
  • IPA(key): /ˈkuɾjo/ [ˈku.ɾjo]
  • Rhymes: -uɾjo
  • Syllabification: cu‧rio
Chemical element
Cm
Previous: americio (Am)
Next: berkelio (Bk)

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

curio m (uncountable)

  1. curium

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

curio m (plural curios)

  1. curie