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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la cūria}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kuː.riˈaː.tʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ku.riˈaː.tus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cūriātus''' (feminine cūriāta, neuter cūriātum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions also have ''cūriātius''.^(OLD 2012)

+

+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cūria|-ātus]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan reports that [[m|la|cūria]] is mostly explained as *ko-wir-ijā, an assembly of men, from [[m|la|vir|t=man]], and notes that the development must be older than the usual ⟨con-⟩ before ⟨v⟩.^(de Vaan 2008) Festus derived the name of the assembly from the curiae.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero, who writes in his speeches on the agrarian law about the curiate assembly and the law it passed.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The comitia cūriāta was the assembly in which the Roman people voted by curiae.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Lewis & Short describe it as originally the only ruling assembly, later limited by the centuriate assembly to adoptions, the choice of priests and the conferring of command.^(Lewis & Short 1879) A lēx cūriāta was a law passed by it, and the lictor cūriātus was the official who summoned it.^(OLD 2012) Livy and Gellius use the terms too.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Inscriptions have the form ⟨cūriātius⟩.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the curiate assembly and its law.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of the curiate law.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius of the curiate assembly.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of the [[curia|alt=cūriae]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) ''comitia cūriāta'', the [[m|en|assembly]] of the people voting by curiae;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) ''lēx cūriāta'', a law passed by it;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) ''lictor cūriātus'', the [[m|en|lictor]] who summoned it.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[curia|alt=cūria]]

+ * [[curialis|alt=cūriālis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}