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Clipping of curiosity, 1851.[1] Compare cabinet of curiosities and French objet de curiosité.

  • IPA(key): /ˈkjʊə̯ɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɜːɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɔːɹiˌəʊ̯/

curio (plural curios)

  1. A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.

    • 2013, Joan Lee Faust, The New York Times Garden Book, Revised:

      Staghorn ferns, with their antlerlike leaves, are really curios of ferndom and never fail to gain attention.

    • 2012 March, David Graeber, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”, in The Baffler‎[1]:

      Video telephony is just about the only new technology from that particular movie that has appeared—and it was technically possible when the movie was showing. 2001 can be seen as a curio, but what about Star Trek?

    • 2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club‎[2], archived from the original on 20 September 2018:

      upon his arrival, Lewis discovers that his uncle’s place is no threadbare bachelor pad. It’s a creaky old Victorian mansion, full of overstuffed chairs, flocked wallpaper, stained glass, creepy carnival curios, and dozens and dozens of clocks.

strange and interesting object

See also: Thesaurus:trinket.

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “curio”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

curio m (uncountable)

  1. curium
Chemical element
Cm
Previous: americio (Am)
Next: berkelio (Bk)
  • IPA(key): /ˈku.rjo/
  • Rhymes: -urjo
  • Hyphenation: cù‧rio

curio m (plural curi)

  1. (chemistry) curium

From cūria (“curia”) +‎ -ō (suffix forming masculine nouns).

cūriō m (genitive cūriōnis); third declension

  1. the priest of a curia
  2. a herald

Third-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

curiō

  1. dative/ablative singular of curium
  • “curio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • curio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • "curio", 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)
  • “curio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • curio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • “curio”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “curio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

curio

  1. first-person singular present indicative of curiar
  • IPA(key): /ˈkuɾjo/ [ˈku.ɾjo]
  • Rhymes: -uɾjo
  • Syllabification: cu‧rio
Chemical element
Cm
Previous: americio (Am)
Next: berkelio (Bk)

Borrowed from English curium, after Pierre and Marie Curie + -io.

curio m (uncountable)

  1. curium

Borrowed from English curie or French curie, named after Pierre and Marie Curie.

curio m (plural curios)

  1. curie