# creatura
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin creatūra.

### Noun

creatura f (plural creatures)
* creature (a living being, especially an animal)
    Synonym: criatura

#### Related terms

* crear
* criatura

### Further reading

* “creatura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “creatura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Italian
### Etymology

Derived from Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kre.aˈtu.ra/
* Rhymes: -ura
* Hyphenation: cre‧a‧tù‧ra
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

creatura f (plural creature, diminutive creaturina, augmentative creaturóna)
* creature
** 1224, Francis of Assisi, Cantico di Frate Sole‎, Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di San Francesco:Laudato ſie mi ſignore cū tucte le tue creature, ſpetialm̄te meſſoꝛ lo fr̄e ſole […]Be praised, my Lord, through all Your creatures, especially my lord Brother Sun, […]
** 1320, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso‎, Johannes Numeister, published 1472, archived from the original on 8 March 2016, Canto I:Vergine Madre figlia del tuo figlio ¶ humile et alta piu che creatura ¶ termino fiſſo decterno conſiglio […]Thou Virgin Mother, daughter of thy Son, ¶ humble and high beyond all other creature, ¶ the limit fixed of the eternal counsel, […]
* (regional) an infant or small child
* (figurative) protege

#### Derived terms

* creaturaccia
* creaturina
* creaturone

#### Related terms

* creabile
* creabilità
* creare
* crearsi
* creativamente
* creatività
* creativo
* creato
* creatore
* creatrice
* creazionario
* creazione
* creazionismo
* creazionista
* creazionistico

### Further reading

* creatura in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* creatura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* carature

## Latin
### Etymology

Substantivization of the feminine future participle form of creō (“I create, make”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kre.aːˈtuː.ra/, [kreäːˈt̪uːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /kre.aˈtu.ra/, [kreäˈt̪uːrä]

### Noun

creātūra f (genitive creātūrae); first declension (Late Latin)
* A created thing; creature.
* Creation

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* creābilis
* creābilitās
* creāmen
* creātiō
* creātiō ex nihilō
* creātor
* creātrīx
* creātūrus
* creō

#### Descendants

* Catalan: creatura, criatura
* Dalmatian: cratoire
* Dutch: creatuur
* English: creature
* French: créature
* → Hungarian: kreatúra
* → Middle Irish: crétúir
** Irish: créatúr
*** → English: crathur
** Manx: cretoor
** Scottish Gaelic: creutair
* Italian: creatura
* Old Occitan: creatura
* Old Galician-Portuguese: creatura
** Galician: criatura
** Portuguese: criatura
* Romanian: creatură
* Sicilian: criaturu, criatura
* Spanish: criatura
* Welsh: creadur

### Participle

creātūra
* inflection of creātūrus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Participle

creātūrā
* ablative feminine singular of creātūrus

### References

* “creatura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "creatura", 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)
* creatura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Derived from Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɾe.a.ˈtu.ɾa/

### Noun

creatura f (plural creaturas)
* creature, living being
* a newborn child

#### Descendants

* Galician: criatura
* Portuguese: criatura

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

### Noun

creatura f (oblique plural creaturas, nominative singular creatura, nominative plural creaturas)
* creature (chiefly a non-human animal or being)
** c. 1130, Marcabru, pastorela:
    Toza, tota creatura / Revertis a sa natura [...]. Girl, every creature reverts to its nature.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Portuguese
### Noun

creatura f (plural creaturas)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of criatura.

#### Usage notes

This spelling coexisted with criatura.

## Spanish
### Noun

creatura f (plural creaturas)
* (formal) creature
    Synonym: criatura

### Further reading

* “creatura”, 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