# cura
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈku.ɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈku.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -uɾa

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

#### Noun

cura f (plural cures)
* care (close attention; concern; responsibility)
    amb molta cura ― with great care; very carefully
* care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
* cure (a method that restores good health)
    Synonyms: guariment, guarició

##### Derived terms

* acurat
* curós

##### Related terms

* curar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cura
* inflection of curar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

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

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

cura
* third-person singular past historic of curer

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

### Verb

cura
* inflection of curar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Noun

cura f (plural curas)
* care (close attention; concern; responsibility)
* care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
* cure (a method that restores good health)

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃúː.ɽàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [t͡ʃúː.ɽàː]

### Verb

cūrā̀ (grade 1)
* to knead into balls

#### Related terms

* curi

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.ra/
* Rhymes: -ura
* Hyphenation: cù‧ra

### Etymology 1

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

#### Noun

cura f (plural cure, diminutive curétta (“cure”) or curettìna (“cure”))
* care
* accuracy
* cure
* treatment (medical)

##### Related terms

* curare

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cura
* inflection of curare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* ruca

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin cura.

### Noun

cura f (plural cures)
* care
* treatment

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* coira, coera (archaic)

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kʷoizā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkuː.ra/, [ˈkuːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈku.ra/, [ˈkuːrä]

### Noun

cūra f (genitive cūrae); first declension
* care, concern, thought
    Synonyms: cultūra, sollicitūdō, tūtēla, cūrātiō
* pains, industry, diligence, exertion
    Synonyms: cōnātus, opus, opera, labor, studium, mōlīmen, intēnsiō, mōlēs, pulvis
* anxiety, grief, sorrow
    Synonyms: maestitia, maeror, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, aegritūdō, dēsīderium, sollicitūdō
    Antonyms: dēlectātiō, lascīvia, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās
* trouble, solicitude
    Synonyms: difficultās, īnfortūnium, mōlēs
** c. 50 C.E., Seneca the Younger, Phaedra, 607
    Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.
       Trivial concerns talk, great ones are speechless.
** Vergilius, Aeneis, Book VI, line 85
    Mitte hanc de pectore curam.
       Dismiss this anxiety from your heart.
* attention, management, administration, charge, care; command, office; guardianship
    Synonyms: mūnus, officium, ministerium, negōtium, cūrātiō
* written work, writing
    Synonym: opus
* (medicine) medical attendance, healing
    Synonym: cūrātiō
* (agriculture) rearing, culture, care
* (rare) an attendant, guardian, observer

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “care”): incūria

#### Derived terms

* cūragendārius
* cūriōsus
* cūrius
* cūrō
* incūria
* sēcūrus
* tricūrium

#### Descendants

* Catalan: cura
* Corsican: cura
* Friulian: cure
* Italian: cura
* Ladin: cura
* → Middle Irish: *cúramm
** Irish: cúram
** Manx: currym
** Scottish Gaelic: cùram
* Old French: cure
** → Middle Dutch: cure
*** Dutch: kuur
** → Middle English: cure
*** English: cure
** Middle French: cure
*** French: cure
* Piedmontese: cura
* → Proto-Brythonic: *kʉr
** Middle Welsh: kur
*** Welsh: cur
* Old Galician-Portuguese: cura
** Portuguese: cura
* Romagnol: cùra
* Romanian: cură
* Sicilian: cura
* Spanish: cura

### Verb

cūrā
* second-person singular present active imperative of cūrō

### References

* “cura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* cura 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)
* cura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt to expend great labour on a thing: operam (laborem, curam) in or ad aliquid impendere to be wasting away with grief: aegritudine, curis confici somebody, something is never absent from my thoughts: aliquis, aliquid mihi curae or cordi est to have laid something to heart; to take an interest in a thing: curae habere aliquid to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas et cogitationes in rem publicam conferre to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas in rei publicae salute defigere (Phil. 14. 5. 13) (ambiguous) anxiety troubles and torments one: cura sollicitat angitque aliquem (ambiguous) good-bye; farewell: vale or cura ut valeas
* “cura”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* cura in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “cura”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
* “cura”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -uɾɐ
* Hyphenation: cu‧ra

### Etymology 1

From Latin cūra, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

#### Noun

cura f (plural curas)
* cure (a method, device or medication that restores good health)
* healing (the process of restoring good health)

##### Related terms

* curar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cura
* inflection of curar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cūrāre, possibly influenced by colāre.

#### Verb

a cura (third-person singular present cură, past participle curat) 1st conjugation
* (rare) to clean
    Synonym: curăța
* (regional) to clear, eliminate, deforest

##### Derived terms

* curat

##### Related terms

* curătură

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from German kurieren, itself borrowed from the same Latin root as the above.

#### Verb

a cura (third-person singular present curează, past participle curat) 1st conjugation
* (rare) to cure, treat an illness, care for
    Synonyms: îngriji, trata

##### See also

* cură

## Rwanda-Rundi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-túda (“to hammer; to forge”).

### Verb

-cúra (infinitive gucúra, perfective -cúze)
* to forge from metal

#### Derived terms

* umucuzi

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Either from earlier cuca (“female genitalia”) or from Polish córka, córa (“daughter”) (cognate with Serbo-Croatian kći (“daughter”)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡sûra/
* Hyphenation: cu‧ra

### Noun

cȕra f (Cyrillic spelling цу̏ра)
* girl (young woman)
* girlfriend (a female partner)
    Brate, cura ti je luđakinja. ― Bro, your girlfriend is a nutcase.

#### See also

* dečko
* momak (Serbian)

### Further reading

* “cura”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuɾa/ [ˈku.ɾa]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: cu‧ra

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cūra (“care, concern”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeys- (“to heed”).

#### Noun

cura f (plural curas)
* cure (something that restores good health)
* (Bolivia, Chile, colloquial) drunkenness
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

##### Derived terms

* alargar la cura
* cura de almas
* curar
* curatela
* curioso
* descura
* garbanzo del cura
* incuria
* no tener cura
* ponerse en cura
* procura
* seguro

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin cūra (“monastic office holder, obedientiary”) from Latin cūra (“warden, administrator”) (originally "care, concern, public administration"; see above).

#### Noun

cura m (plural curas)
* priest; curate
    Synonyms: párroco, sacerdote
    Coordinate term: vicario

##### Derived terms

* curato

##### Related terms

* nunca digas de este agua no beberé, ni este cura no es mi padre

### Etymology 3

Unknown.

#### Noun

cura f (plural curas)
* (Colombia, dated) avocado
    Synonyms: aguacate, (Philippines) avocado, (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) palta

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

cura f (plural curas)
* female equivalent of curo (“someone from Courland”)

#### Adjective

cura f
* feminine singular of curo

### Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cura
* inflection of curar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cura”, 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

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish جوره (cura) from either Persian جوره (jura) or Persian جره (jarra).

### Noun

cura (definite accusative curayı, plural curalar)
* (music) a stringed musical instrument

### References

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cura”, in Nişanyan Sözlük