Borrowed fromLatincreatūra.

creatura f (pluralcreatures)

1. creature(a living being, especially an animal)

   Synonym:criatura

• crear
• criatura

• “creatura”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana,2025
• “creatura” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Derived fromLate Latincreātūra, fromLatincreō.

• IPA^(key): /kre.aˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes:-ura
• Hyphenation:cre‧a‧tù‧ra

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creatura f (pluralcreature,diminutivecreaturina,augmentativecreaturóna)

1. creature
   • 1224,Francis of Assisi,Cantico di Frate Sole‎^[1], Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di San Francesco:

     Laudato ſie mi ſignore cū tucte le tuecreature, ſpetialm̄te meſſoꝛ lo fr̄e ſole[…]

     Be praised, my Lord, through all Yourcreatures, especially my lord Brother Sun, […]

   • 1320,Dante Alighieri,La divina commedia: Paradiso‎^[2], Johannes Numeister, published1472, archived fromthe original on8 March 2016, Canto I:

     Vergine Madre figlia del tuo figlio ¶ humile et alta piu checreatura ¶ termino fiſſo decterno conſiglio[…]

     Thou Virgin Mother, daughter of thy Son, ¶ humble and high beyond all othercreature, ¶ the limit fixed of the eternal counsel, […]

2. (regional) aninfant orsmallchild
3. (figurative)protege

• creatura inCollins Italian-English Dictionary
• creatura in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• carature

Substantivization of the feminine future participle form ofcreō(“I create, make”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [kre.aːˈtuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [kre.aˈt̪uː.ra]

creātūra f (genitivecreātūrae);first declension(Late Latin)

1. Acreated thing;creature.
2. Creation

First-declension noun.

creātūra

1. inflection ofcreātūrus:
   1. nominative/vocativefemininesingular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural

creātūrā

1. ablativefemininesingular ofcreātūrus

• “creatura”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "creatura", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “creatura”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Derived fromLate Latincreātūra, fromLatincreō.

• IPA^(key): /kɾe.a.ˈtu.ɾa/

creatura f (pluralcreaturas)

1. creature, livingbeing
2. anewborn child

• Galician:criatura
• Portuguese:criatura

Borrowed fromLate Latincreātūra, fromLatincreō.

creatura f (oblique pluralcreaturas,nominative singularcreatura,nominative pluralcreaturas)

1. creature(chiefly anon-humananimal orbeing)
   • c. 1130,Marcabru, pastorela:

     Toza, totacreatura / Revertis a sa natura [...].
     Girl, every creature reverts to its nature.

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creatura f (pluralcreaturas)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) ofcriatura

This spelling coexisted withcriatura.

• IPA^(key): /kɾeaˈtuɾa/[kɾe.aˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes:-uɾa
• Syllabification:cre‧a‧tu‧ra

creatura f (pluralcreaturas)

1. (formal)creature

   Synonym:criatura

• “creatura”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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