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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Pliny the Younger|origins=la cūra}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cūrātē''' (adverb; comparative cūrātius, superlative cūrātissimē)^(OLD 2012)^(VoLat 2018)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cūrātus|-ē|t1=careful, attentive]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Bianchi & Lelli 2014) That adjective is the participle of [[m|la|cūrō|t=to take care of]], which is formed from [[m|la|cūra|t=care]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in the comparative ''cūrātius'', in the letters of Pliny the Younger and in Tacitus,^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) meaning “more carefully, with more attention”.^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Classical Latin it means doing something with care, diligently or elaborately,^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) and is mostly found in the comparative: Tacitus uses ''cūrātius'' of reading something more attentively.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016) The positive ''cūrātē'' appears in Ammianus Marcellinus.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ Medieval Latin kept it in the sense “carefully, diligently”, of things prepared or reread with care,^(MLW) and the medieval Latin of Poland has the superlative ''cūrātissimē''.^(eLexicon Polonorum)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses the comparative ''cūrātius'' in the ''Annals''.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus uses the positive ''cūrātē''.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

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

+ # ''(comparative)'' More attentively, as of reading something closely.^(Georges 1913)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The glossaries render it with [[m|grc|σπουδαίως|tr=spoudaíōs]] “earnestly”.^(CGL)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}