cura

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cura"

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡suɾa/

Noun

cura

1. inflection of curë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈku.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈku.ɾa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Rhymes: -uɾa

Etymology 1

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

Noun

cura f (plural cures)

1. care (close attention; concern; responsibility)

   amb molta cura ― with great care; very carefully

2. care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
3. 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

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cura”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “cura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cura”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Chavacano

Etymology 1

Inherited from Spanish cura (“priest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾa/, [ˈku.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra

Noun

cura

1. curate; parish priest

Etymology 2

Inherited from Spanish curar (“to cure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈɾa/, [kuˈɾa]
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra

Verb

curá

1. to cure

Conjugation

Verb conjugation for cura

	tense	infinitive	present	future
Zamboanga City conjugation	cura	ya cura	ta cura	ay cura
Cavite conjugation				di cura

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁa/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Verb

cura

1. third-person singular past historic of curer

Galician

Etymology

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

Verb

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Noun

cura f (plural curas)

1. care (close attention; concern; responsibility)
2. care, treatment (the treatment of those in need)
3. cure (a method that restores good health)

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃúː.ɽàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃúː.ɽàː]

Verb

cūrā̀ (grade 1)

1. to knead into balls

Related terms

• curi

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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”))

1. care
2. accuracy
3. cure
4. treatment (medical)

Related terms

• curare

Etymology 2

Verb

cura

1. inflection of curare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• ruca

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin cura.

Noun

cura f (plural cures)

1. care
2. treatment

Latin

Alternative forms

• coira, coera (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.ra]

Noun

cūra f (genitive cūrae); first declension

1. care, concern, thought

   Synonyms: cultūra, sollicitūdō, tūtēla, cūrātiō

2. pains, industry, diligence, exertion

   Synonyms: cōnātus, opus, opera, labor, studium, mōlīmen, intēnsiō, mōlēs, pulvis

3. anxiety, grief, sorrow

   Synonyms: maestitia, maeror, lūctus, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, aegritūdō, dēsīderium, sollicitūdō

   Antonyms: dēlectātiō, lascīvia, gaudium, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās

4. 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.

5. attention, management, administration, charge, care; command, office; guardianship

   Synonyms: mūnus, officium, ministerium, negōtium, cūrātiō

6. written work, writing

   Synonym: opus

7. (medicine) medical attendance, healing

   Synonym: cūrātiō

8. (agriculture) rearing, culture, care
9. (rare) an attendant, guardian, observer

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cūra	cūrae
genitive	cūrae	cūrārum
dative	cūrae	cūrīs
accusative	cūram	cūrās
ablative	cūrā	cūrīs
vocative	cūra	cūrae

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
• →⇒ Umbrian: 𐌊𐌖𐌓𐌀𐌉𐌀 (kuraia)
• → Hungarian: kúra
• → Old Czech: kúra
  • Czech: kúra
• → Old Slovak: kúra
  • Pannonian Rusyn: кура (kura)
  • Slovak: kúra

Verb

cūrā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cūrō

Further reading

• “cura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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^[1], 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], 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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -uɾɐ
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra

Etymology 1

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

Noun

cura f (plural curas)

1. cure (a method, device or medication that restores good health)
2. healing (the process of restoring good health)

Related terms

• curar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cura”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cura”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin cūrāre, possibly influenced by colāre.

Verb

a cura (third-person singular present cură, past participle curat) 1st conjugation

1. (rare) to clean

   Synonym: curăța

2. (regional) to clear, eliminate, deforest

Conjugation

    conjugation of cura (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a cura
gerund			curând
past participle			curat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	cur	curi	cură	curăm	curați	cură
	imperfect	curam	curai	cura	curam	curați	curau
	simple perfect	curai	curași	cură	curarăm	curarăți	curară
	pluperfect	curasem	curaseși	curase	curaserăm	curaserăți	curaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să cur	să curi	să cure	să curăm	să curați	să cure
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		cură			curați
	negative		nu cura			nu curați

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

1. (rare) to cure, treat an illness, care for

   Synonyms: îngriji, trata

Conjugation

    conjugation of cura (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a cura
gerund			curând
past participle			curat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	curez	curezi	curează	curăm	curați	curează
	imperfect	curam	curai	cura	curam	curați	curau
	simple perfect	curai	curași	cură	curarăm	curarăți	curară
	pluperfect	curasem	curaseși	curase	curaserăm	curaserăți	curaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să curez	să curezi	să cureze	să curăm	să curați	să cureze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		curează			curați
	negative		nu cura			nu curați

See also

• cură

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

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

Verb

-cúra (infinitive gucúra, perfective -cúze)

1. 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^(key): /t͡sûra/
• Hyphenation: cu‧ra

Noun

cȕra f (Cyrillic spelling цу̏ра)

1. girl (young woman)
2. girlfriend (a female partner)

   Brate, cura ti je luđakinja. ― Bro, your girlfriend is a nutcase.

Declension

Declension of cura

	singular	plural
nominative	cȕra	cure
genitive	cure	cȗrā
dative	curi	curama
accusative	curu	cure
vocative	curo	cure
locative	curi	curama
instrumental	curom	curama

See also

• dečko
• momak (Serbian)

Further reading

• “cura”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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)

1. cure (something that restores good health)
2. (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)

1. 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)

1. (Colombia, dated) avocado

   Synonyms: aguacate, (Philippines) avocado, (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay) palta

Etymology 4

Noun

cura f (plural curas)

1. female equivalent of curo (“someone from Courland”)

Adjective

cura f

1. feminine singular of curo

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

cura

1. inflection of curar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See also

• Appendix:Spanish nouns that have different meanings depending on their gender

Further reading

• “cura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

cura (definite accusative curayı, plural curalar)

Cura and bağlama

1. (music) a stringed musical instrument

References

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