curo

See also: curó, curò, and ĉuro

Catalan

Verb

curo

1. first-person singular present indicative of curar

Galician

Verb

curo

1. first-person singular present indicative of curar

Indonesian

Etymology

From Spanish churro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃuro]
• Hyphenation: cu‧ro

Noun

curo (plural curo-curo)

1. (cooking) churro: a fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage

Further reading

• “curo”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.ro/
• Rhymes: -uro
• Hyphenation: cù‧ro

Verb

curo

1. first-person singular present indicative of curare

Anagrams

• cuor

Latin

Alternative forms

• coirō (Old Latin)
• coerō (Old Latin)

Etymology

By surface analysis, cūra +‎ -ō, from Proto-italic Proto-Italic *kʷoizā.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

cūrō (present infinitive cūrāre, perfect active cūrāvī, supine cūrātum); first conjugation

1. 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.

2. to heal, cure

   similia similibus cūrantur

   likes cure likes

   • c. 80, The Gospel of Luke, 4:23:

     Medice, cura te ipsum.

     Physician, heal thyself.

3. to govern, command, preside over

   Synonym: praesum

4. to refresh (when occurring with corpus)
5. to undertake, procure
6. (reflexive) to trouble (oneself)
7. (in mercantile language) to take care of money matters, adjust or settle, pay

   Synonyms: pendo, absolvo, persolvo, erogo, solvo

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cūrō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	cūrō		cūrās		cūrat		cūrāmus		cūrātis		cūrant
	imperfect	cūrābam		cūrābās		cūrābat		cūrābāmus		cūrābātis		cūrābant
	future	cūrābō		cūrābis		cūrābit		cūrābimus		cūrābitis		cūrābunt
	perfect	cūrāvī		cūrāvistī, cūrāstī3		cūrāvit, cūrāt3		cūrāvimus, cūrāmus3		cūrāvistis, cūrāstis3		cūrāvērunt, cūrārunt, cūrāvēre3
	pluperfect	cūrāveram, cūrāram3		cūrāverās, cūrārās3		cūrāverat, cūrārat3		cūrāverāmus, cūrārāmus3		cūrāverātis, cūrārātis3		cūrāverant, cūrārant3
	future perfect	cūrāverō, cūrārō3		cūrāveris, cūrāris3		cūrāverit, cūrārit3		cūrāverimus, cūrārimus3		cūrāveritis, cūrāritis3		cūrāverint, cūrārint3
	sigmatic future1	cūrāssō		cūrāssis		cūrāssit		cūrāssimus		cūrāssitis		cūrāssint
passive	present	cūror		cūrāris, cūrāre		cūrātur		cūrāmur		cūrāminī		cūrantur
	imperfect	cūrābar		cūrābāris, cūrābāre		cūrābātur		cūrābāmur		cūrābāminī		cūrābantur
	future	cūrābor		cūrāberis, cūrābere		cūrābitur		cūrābimur		cūrābiminī		cūrābuntur
	perfect	cūrātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	cūrātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	cūrātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	cūrem		cūrēs		cūret		cūrēmus		cūrētis		cūrent
	imperfect	cūrārem		cūrārēs		cūrāret		cūrārēmus		cūrārētis		cūrārent
	perfect	cūrāverim, cūrārim3		cūrāverīs, cūrārīs3		cūrāverit, cūrārit3		cūrāverīmus, cūrārīmus3		cūrāverītis, cūrārītis3		cūrāverint, cūrārint3
	pluperfect	cūrāvissem, cūrāssem3		cūrāvissēs, cūrāssēs3		cūrāvisset, cūrāsset3		cūrāvissēmus, cūrāssēmus3		cūrāvissētis, cūrāssētis3		cūrāvissent, cūrāssent3
	sigmatic aorist1	cūrāssim		cūrāssīs		cūrāssīt		cūrāssīmus		cūrāssītis		cūrāssint
passive	present	cūrer		cūrēris, cūrēre		cūrētur		cūrēmur		cūrēminī		cūrentur
	imperfect	cūrārer		cūrārēris, cūrārēre		cūrārētur		cūrārēmur		cūrārēminī		cūrārentur
	perfect	cūrātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	cūrātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		cūrā		—		—		cūrāte		—
	future	—		cūrātō		cūrātō		—		cūrātōte		cūrantō
passive	present	—		cūrāre		—		—		cūrāminī		—
	future	—		cūrātor		cūrātor		—		—		cūrantor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		cūrāre			cūrārī, cūrārier2			cūrāns			—
future		cūrātūrum esse			cūrātum īrī			cūrātūrus			cūrandus
perfect		cūrāvisse, cūrāsse3			cūrātum esse			—			cūrātus
future perfect		—			cūrātum fore			—			—
perfect potential		cūrātūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		cūrandī		cūrandō		cūrandum		cūrandō		cūrātum		cūrātū

¹At 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").
²The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
³At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• Asturian: curar, curiar
• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: cur, curari
  • Romanian: cura
  • → Albanian: kuroj
• Catalan: curar
• → Danish: kurere
• Emilian: curèr
• → English: curate, cure, scour
• → French: curer
• Friulian: curâ
• Galician: curar
• Italian: curare
• → Norwegian Bokmål: kurere
• Occitan: curar
• Portuguese: curar
• Romansh: 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^[1], 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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ɾu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈku.ɾu/

• Hyphenation: cu‧ro
• Rhymes: -uɾu

Verb

curo

1. first-person singular present indicative of curar

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

curo (Cyrillic spelling цуро)

1. vocative singular of cura

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾo/ [ˈku.ɾo]
• Rhymes: -uɾo
• Syllabification: cu‧ro

Etymology 1

Adjective

curo (feminine cura, masculine plural curos, feminine plural curas)

1. of, from or relating to Courland

Noun

curo m (plural curos, feminine cura, feminine plural curas)

1. native or inhabitant of Courland (usually male)

Etymology 2

Noun

curo m (plural curos)

1. (Colombia, dated) avocado tree

   Synonyms: aguacate, (Argentina, Chile) palto

See also

• cura

Etymology 3

Verb

curo

1. 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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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^(key): /ˈkɨ̞rɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkiːrɔ/, /ˈkɪrɔ/

Verb

curo (first-person singular present curaf)

1. to beat, strike, hit

   Synonyms: bwrw, taro, ergydio

2. to beat, defeat

   Synonym: trechu

Conjugation

Conjugation of curo (literary)

	singular			plural			impersonal
	first	second	third	first	second	third
present indicative/future	curaf	curi	cura	curwn	curwch	curant	curir
imperfect (indicative/subjunctive)/ conditional	curwn	curit	curai	curem	curech	curent	curid
preterite	curais	curaist	curodd	curasom	curasoch	curasant	curwyd
pluperfect	curaswn	curasit	curasai	curasem	curasech	curasent	curasid, curesid
present subjunctive	curwyf	curych	curo	curom	curoch	curont	curer
imperative	—	cura	cured	curwn	curwch	curent	curer
verbal noun	curo
verbal adjectives	curedig curadwy

Conjugation of curo (colloquial)

inflected colloquial forms	singular			plural
	first	second	third	first	second	third
future	cura i, curaf i	curi di	curith o/e/hi, curiff e/hi	curwn ni	curwch chi	curan nhw
conditional	curwn i, curswn i	curet ti, curset ti	curai fo/fe/hi, cursai fo/fe/hi	curen ni, cursen ni	curech chi, cursech chi	curen nhw, cursen nhw
preterite	curais i, cures i	curaist ti, curest ti	curodd o/e/hi	curon ni	curoch chi	curon nhw
imperative	—	cura	—	—	curwch	—

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

Derived terms

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of curo

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
curo	guro	nghuro	churo

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