# curvatura
## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin curvātūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kur.bəˈtu.ɾə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kur.vəˈtu.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kuɾ.vaˈtu.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa

### Noun

curvatura f (plural curvatures)
* curvature (the shape of something curved)

#### Related terms

* corba
* corbar

### Further reading

* “curvatura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “curvatura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “curvatura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “curvatura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin curvātūra.

### Noun

curvatura f (plural curvaturas)
* curvature (the shape of something curved)

#### Related terms

* curva
* curvar

### Further reading

* “curvatura”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Italian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin curvātūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kur.vaˈtu.ra/
* Rhymes: -ura
* Hyphenation: cur‧va‧tù‧ra

### Noun

curvatura f (plural curvature)
* curvature (the shape of something curved)
* camber (of a road)
* warp

#### Related terms

* curvare

### Further reading

* curvatura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From curvātum +‎ -tūra.

### Noun

curvātūra f (genitive curvātūrae); first declension
* bend, bending, curvature
* (architecture) arch, vault

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

### Participle

curvātūra
* inflection of curvātūrus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Participle

curvātūrā
* ablative feminine singular of curvātūrus

### References

* “curvatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “curvatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* curvatura 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)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin curvātūra. By surface analysis, curvar +‎ -tura.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kuʁ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuɦ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kuʁ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuɦ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kuɾ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kuʁ.vaˈtu.ɾɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kuɻ.vaˈtu.ɾa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kuɾ.vɐˈtu.ɾɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kuɾ.vɐˈtu.ɾɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /kuɾ.bɐˈtu.ɾɐ/ [kuɾ.βɐˈtu.ɾɐ]
* Rhymes: -uɾɐ
* Hyphenation: cur‧va‧tu‧ra

### Noun

curvatura f (plural curvaturas)
* curvature (the shape of something curved)

#### Related terms

* curva
* curvar

### Further reading

* “curvatura”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “curvatura”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “curvatura” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “curvatura”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “curvatura”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “curvatura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin curvātūra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuɾbaˈtuɾa/ [kuɾ.β̞aˈt̪u.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: cur‧va‧tu‧ra

### Noun

curvatura f (plural curvaturas)
* curvature (the shape of something curved)

#### Related terms

* curva
* curvar

### Further reading

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