curie

See also: Curie and CURIE

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859–1906).

Pronunciation

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Noun

curie (plural curies)

1. 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

Derived terms

• curietherapy
• kilocurie
• megacurie
• microcurie
• millicurie
• multicurie
• nanocurie
• picocurie

 

Translations

unit of radioactivity

• Japanese: キュリー (kyuri-)
• Russian: кюри (ru) (kyuri)
• Thai: กูรี (guu-rii), กูว์รี (guu-rii)

Further reading

• curie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Euric, urcei, ureic

Aromanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قوری (korı, koru).

Noun

curíe f (plural curii)

1. grove, little forest

References

• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “413. CURÍE sb. f. pl. curiǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 105

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁi/

Etymology 1

From Latin curia.

Noun

curie f (plural curies)

1. curia (all meanings)

Etymology 2

From Curie; Named after Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906), physicist.

Noun

curie m (plural curies)

1. curie

Derived terms

Derived terms

• curiethérapie

Further reading

• “curie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cuire, cuiré

Italian

Etymology 1

Noun

curie f

1. plural of curia

Etymology 2

Noun

curie m (invariable)

1. curie (unit of measure)

Portuguese

Verb

curie

1. inflection of curiar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French curie.

Noun

curie m (uncountable)

1. curia

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	curie	curieul
genitive-dative	curie	curieului
vocative	curieule

Spanish

Noun

curie m (plural curies)

1. curie

   Synonym: curio

Further reading

• “curie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10