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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato (234–149 BC)|origins=la cūrō}}
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''cūrātus''' (feminine cūrāta, neuter cūrātum; comparative cūrātior, superlative cūrātissimus); first/second-declension adjective^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ Used as an adjective, it is the past participle [[der|la|cūrō|t=to take care of]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The verb is formed from [[m|la|cūra|t=care]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*kwois-ā-|t=care, watch]] and [[ine-pro|*kwei-s-|t=to heed]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Cato uses the comparative of oxen that will be in better condition, ''corpore cūrātiōrēs'', if they are well looked after.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ The adjective meant “well looked after”, “carefully prepared”, as Celsus says of suet cleaned of its membranes, and in Tacitus “anxious, earnest”, of urgent prayers.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In medieval Latin it described an ecclesiastical office that carried the spiritual care of a parish,^(Niermeyer 1976) and the masculine became a noun for a monk in charge of a priory or office and for a priest in charge of a parish, a [[m|en|curate]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler's first source for the noun is Ekkehard IV.^(Köbler 2010) Du Cange quotes it from Thomas Walsingham and a charter of King John of France of 1363,^(Du Cange 1883) and British sources use it for the cure of souls.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses the comparative of well-tended oxen.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses the superlative of earnest prayers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1047–1053 – Köbler's earliest record of the noun is in Ekkehard IV.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1363 – A charter of King John of France calls the bishop of Paris ''quasi cūrātus'' of the French kings.^(Du Cange 1883)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Well looked after, [[m|en|tend|alt=tended]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # Carefully prepared.^(OLD 2012)
+ # [[m|en|anxious|alt=Anxious]], [[m|en|solicitous]], earnest.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of an ecclesiastical office: carrying the spiritual care of a [[m|en|parish]].^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A monk in charge of an office or dependent house.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A priest with the care of a parish, a [[m|en|curate]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Stelten 1995)^(Du Cange 1883)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}