curiositas

Latin

Etymology

cūriōsus +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kuː.riˈoː.si.taːs/, [kuːriˈoːs̠ɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ku.riˈo.si.tas/, [kuriˈɔːs̬it̪äs]

Noun

cūriōsitās f (genitive cūriōsitātis); third declension

1. curiosity, inquisitiveness

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cūriōsitās	cūriōsitātēs
Genitive	cūriōsitātis	cūriōsitātum
Dative	cūriōsitātī	cūriōsitātibus
Accusative	cūriōsitātem	cūriōsitātēs
Ablative	cūriōsitāte	cūriōsitātibus
Vocative	cūriōsitās	cūriōsitātēs

Descendants

Descendants

(all borrowed)

• Albanian: kurreshtje
• Catalan: curiositat
• English: curiosity
• French: curiosité
• German: Kuriosität
• 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• curiositas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.