curiositas

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kuː.riˈoː.si.taːs/, [kuː.rɪˈoː.sɪ.taːs]

Noun

cūriōsitās f (genitive cūriōsitātis); third declension

curiosity, inquisitiveness

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cūriōsitās	cūriōsitātēs
genitive	cūriōsitātis	cūriōsitātum
dative	cūriōsitātī	cūriōsitātibus
accusative	cūriōsitātem	cūriōsitātēs
ablative	cūriōsitāte	cūriōsitātibus
vocative	cūriōsitās	cūriōsitātēs

Descendants

Descendants of curiositas in other languages

(all borrowed)

Albanian: kurreshtje
Catalan: curiositat
English: curiosity
French: curiosité
Galician: curiosidade

Italian: curiosità
Norwegian: kuriositet (Bokmål), kuriositet (Nynorsk)
Portuguese: curiosidade
Romanian: curiozitate
Spanish: curiosidad

References

curiositas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
curiositas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
curiositas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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