curie

Borrowed from French curie. Named after French physicist Pierre Curie (1859–1906).

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curie (plural curies)

1. 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

•   curie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Euric, urcei, ureic

From Ottoman Turkish قوری (korı, koru).

curíe f (plural curii)

1. grove, little forest

• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “413. CURÍE sb. f. pl. curiǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 105

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁi/

From Latin curia.

curie f (plural curies)

1. curia (all meanings)

From Curie; Named after Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906), physicist.

curie m (plural curies)

1. curie

• “curie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cuire, cuiré

curie f

1. plural of curia

curie m (invariable)

1. curie (unit of measure)

Borrowed from French curie.

curie m (uncountable)

1. curia

curie m (plural curies)

1. curie

   Synonym: curio

• “curie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28