curio

Clipping of curiosity, 1851.[1] Compare cabinet of curiosities and French objet de curiosité.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjʊə̯ɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɜːɹiˌəʊ̯/, /ˈkjɔːɹiˌəʊ̯/

curio (plural curios)

1. A strange and interesting object; something that evokes curiosity.
   • 2018 September 19, Katie Rife, “Eli Roth, of all directors, brings Amblin magic to the kid-lit horror of The House With A Clock In Its Walls”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     upon his arrival, Lewis discovers that his uncle’s place is no threadbare bachelor pad. It’s a creaky old Victorian mansion, full of overstuffed chairs, flocked wallpaper, stained glass, creepy carnival curios, and dozens and dozens of clocks.

   • 2012 March 1, David Graeber, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”, in The Baffler‎:

     Video telephony is just about the only new technology from that particular movie that has appeared—and it was technically possible when the movie was showing. 2001 can be seen as a curio, but what about Star Trek?

• curiosity
• curious

See also: Thesaurus:trinket.

• Cú Roí

curio m (uncountable)

1. curium

• IPA^(key): /ˈkurjo/

curio m (plural curi)

1. (chemistry) curium

• cuori
• urico

curiō

1. dative singular of curium
2. ablative singular of curium

• curio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• curio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• curio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• curio in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• curio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾjo/

From Curie +‎ -io, after Pierre and Marie Curie.

curio m (uncountable)

1. curium

• curio on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

From English or French curie, named after Pierre and Marie Curie.

• curie (obsolete)

curio m (plural curios)

1. curie