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

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cūriōsē''' (comparative cūriōsius, superlative cūriōsissimē)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cūriōsus|-ē|t1=careful; curious]].^(OLD 2012)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014)^(Köbler 2010) The adjective is formed from [[m|la|cūra|t=care, anxiety]], whose further origin de Vaan finds uncertain; he considers [[itc-pro|*kwois-ā-|t=care, watch]] and a link with [[ine-pro|*kwei-s-|t=to heed]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who writes in the ''Brutus'' ''conquiram ista posthac curiosius'', “I will look into these things more carefully later”.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its first sense is carefully or attentively: Vitruvius has things arranged carefully and precisely, Celsus wrapping someone carefully in clothes, and Pliny the Younger a letter written with more care.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) It could also mean elaborately: Quintilian speaks of people who talk elaborately rather than in good Latin, and Apuleius of ceilings carefully hollowed out in citrus wood and ivory.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ The second sense is inquisitively: Cicero says that those who ask what he himself thinks on every question are more curious than they need be.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Gellius and Apuleius use it the same way.^(OLD 2012) In British Medieval Latin it means carefully, from Bede on, elaborately, and in an extravagant style.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it for both “carefully” and “inquisitively”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of careful arrangement.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of affected, elaborate speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of curious listening.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st third of the 8th century AD – Bede uses it for “carefully”.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # With care, carefully, [[m|en|attentively]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # [[m|en|elaborately|alt=Elaborately]]; with [[m|en|affectation]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # With [[m|en|curiosity]], [[m|en|inquisitively]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' In an extravagant style, luxuriously.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cūriōsus]]

+ * [[cūra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}