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Forms
cūrātē (adverb; comparative cūrātius, superlative cūrātissimē)[1][2]
Etymology
It is from Latin cūrātus (“careful, attentive”) + -ē.[1][3][4] That adjective is the participle of cūrō (“to take care of”), which is formed from cūra (“care”).[5]
Earliest recorded meaning
It is first found in the comparative cūrātius, in the letters of Pliny the Younger and in Tacitus,[3][6] meaning “more carefully, with more attention”.[3][1]
Semantic evolution
In Classical Latin it means doing something with care, diligently or elaborately,[1][6] and is mostly found in the comparative: Tacitus uses cūrātius of reading something more attentively.[3][7] The positive cūrātē appears in Ammianus Marcellinus.[3][7]
Medieval Latin kept it in the sense “carefully, diligently”, of things prepared or reread with care,[8] and the medieval Latin of Poland has the superlative cūrātissimē.[9]
Timeline
- 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses the comparative cūrātius in the Annals.[3][6][5]
- c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus uses the positive cūrātē.[3][7][5]
Meanings
Adverb
- With care, carefully, diligently; elaborately.[1][3]
- (comparative) More attentively, as of reading something closely.[3][1]
Usage notes
The glossaries render it with σπουδαίως (spoudaíōs) “earnestly”.[10]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ VoLat: Vocabolario della Lingua Latina (2018), Milan: Hoepli
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
- ^ Bianchi, Rossella; Lelli, Olga (2014), VOLI: Vocabolario di latino, Florence: Le Monnier
- ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
- ^ a b c Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
- ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
- ^ Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
- ^ Lexicon mediae et infimae Latinitatis Polonorum (1953–), Kraków: Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN; electronic ed. elexicon.scriptores.pl
- ^ Goetz, Georg (1888–1923), Corpus glossariorum Latinorum, Leipzig: Teubner; vols. VI–VII Thesaurus glossarum emendatarum, digital ed. CGLO, Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften