Cures

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English

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Proper noun

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Cures

  1. plural of Cure

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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Sabine, perhaps related to curīs (spear), itself possibly from Proto-Italic *kusi- and related to the root of cuspis (sharp point).[1]

Proper noun

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Curēs m pl (genitive Curium); third declension

  1. the ancient chief town of the Sabines
  2. (figurative) the inhabitants of Cures

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Curēs
Genitive Curium
Dative Curibus
Accusative Curēs
Curīs
Ablative Curibus
Vocative Curēs
Locative Curibus

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cures”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Cures”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Cures in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Cures in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cuspis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 159