# curio
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkjʊə̯ɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɜːɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɔːɹiˌəʊ̯/
* Audio (Southern England):noicon(file)

### Noun

curio (plural curios)
* 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: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, 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.

#### Related terms

* curiosity
* curious

#### Translations
### See also

See also: Thesaurus:trinket.

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “curio”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Cú Roí

## Galician
### Noun

curio m (uncountable)
* curium

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.rjo/
* Rhymes: -urjo
* Hyphenation: cù‧rio

### Noun

curio m (plural curi)
* (chemistry) curium

### Anagrams

* cuori, urico

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkuː.ri.oː/, [ˈkuːrioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈku.ri.o/, [ˈkuːrio]

#### Noun

cūriō m (genitive cūriōnis); third declension
* the priest of a curia
* a herald

##### Declension

Third-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* cūriōnātus
* cūriōnius

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈku.ri.oː/, [ˈkʊrioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈku.ri.o/, [ˈkuːrio]

#### Noun

curiō
* dative/ablative singular of curium

### References

* “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, 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

## Portuguese
### Verb

curio
* first-person singular present indicative of curiar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuɾjo/ [ˈku.ɾjo]
* Rhymes: -uɾjo
* Syllabification: cu‧rio

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

curio m (uncountable)
* curium

##### See also

* curio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{es}$

### Etymology 2

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

#### Alternative forms

* curie (obsolete)

#### Noun

curio m (plural curios)
* curie

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10