# curo
## Catalan
### Verb

curo
* first-person singular present indicative of curar

## Galician
### Verb

curo
* first-person singular present indicative of curar

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Spanish churro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡ʃuro]
* Hyphenation: cu‧ro

### Noun

curo (plural curo-curo)
* (cooking) churro: a fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage

### Further reading

* “curo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.ro/
* Rhymes: -uro
* Hyphenation: cù‧ro

### Verb

curo
* first-person singular present indicative of curare

### Anagrams

* cuor

## Latin
### Etymology

From cūra +‎ -ō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkuː.roː/, [ˈkuːroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈku.ro/, [ˈkuːro]

### Verb

cūrō (present infinitive cūrāre, perfect active cūrāvī, supine cūrātum); first conjugation
* to arrange, see to, attend to, take care of, look after, ensure, tend to
    Synonyms: accūrō, cū̆stōdiō, servō, videō, cōnsulō, prōcūrō, colō, cōnsultō, respiciō, serviō, caveō
    Rōmānī templa deōrum magnā diligentiā cūrant.The Romans care for the temples of the gods with great diligence.
** Benedictus de Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus
    sedulo curavi, humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere
       I have laboured diligently, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions; but to understand them.
* to heal, cure
    similia similibus cūranturlikes cure likes
* to govern, command, preside over
    Synonym: praesum
* to refresh (when occurring with corpus)
* to undertake, procure
* (reflexive) to trouble (oneself)
* (in mercantile language) to take care of money matters, adjust or settle, pay
    Synonyms: pendo, absolvo, persolvo, erogo, solvo

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to"). $^2$The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested. $^3$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Derived terms

* accūrō
* aliud cūrā
* cūrābilis
* cūrans
* cūrātūra
* cūrātus
* praecūrō
* procūrō
* recūrō

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: kuroj
* Aromanian: cur, curari
* Asturian: curar, curiar
* Catalan: curar
* → Danish: kurere
* → English: curate, cure, scour
* French: curer
* Friulian: curâ
* Galician: curar
* Italian: curare
* → Norwegian Bokmål: kurere
* Occitan: curar
* Portuguese: curar
* Romanian: cura
* Romansch: curar
* Sardinian: curài, curare
* Sicilian: curari
* Spanish: curar, curiar
* Venetan: curar

### References

* “curo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* curo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare to treat as a patient (used of a doctor): aegrotum curare to cure a patient: aegrotum sanare (not curare) not to trouble oneself about a thing: nihil omnino curare to keep house: rem domesticam, familiarem administrare, regere, curare to refresh oneself, minister to one's bodily wants: corpus curare (cibo, vino, somno) (ambiguous) anxiety troubles and torments one: cura sollicitat angitque aliquem (ambiguous) good-bye; farewell: vale or cura ut valeas

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.ɾu/
* Hyphenation: cu‧ro
* Rhymes: -uɾu

### Verb

curo
* first-person singular present indicative of curar

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

curo (Cyrillic spelling цуро)
* vocative singular of cura

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuɾo/ [ˈku.ɾo]
* Rhymes: -uɾo
* Syllabification: cu‧ro

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

curo (feminine cura, masculine plural curos, feminine plural curas)
* of, from or relating to Courland

#### Noun

curo m (plural curos, feminine cura, feminine plural curas)
* native or inhabitant of Courland (male or of unspecified gender)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

curo m (plural curos)
* (Colombia, dated) avocado tree
    Synonyms: aguacate, (Argentina, Chile) palto

#### See also

* cura

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

curo
* first-person singular present indicative of curar

### Further reading

* “curo”, 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

## Welsh
### Etymology

From Middle Welsh kuraw. By surface analysis, cur (“anxiety, pain; blow, beating”) +‎ -o, derived from Latin cūra (“care; anxiety”).

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈkɨ̞rɔ/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈkiːrɔ/, /ˈkɪrɔ/

### Verb

curo (first-person singular present curaf)
* to beat, strike, hit
    Synonyms: bwrw, taro
* to beat, defeat
    Synonym: trechu

#### Conjugation

Note: All other forms are periphrastic, as usual in colloquial Welsh.

#### Derived terms

* curfa (“beating, thrashing”, noun)
* curiad (“beat”, noun)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “curo”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies