Borrowed fromItaliancurato(“priest”).Doublet ofcurate andcuré.
curato (pluralcuratos)
- priest
1888, Henry James,The Aspern Papers:Certainly even the priests respected their seclusion; I had never caught the whisk of thecurato's skirt.
FromLatincūrātus.
curato (femininecurata,masculine pluralcurati,feminine pluralcurate,superlativecuratissimo)
- tended,kept(especially in combination)
- neat,tidy,trim
- cured
- treated
- edited
curato (femininecurata,masculine pluralcurati,feminine pluralcurate)
- pastparticiple ofcurare
Borrowed fromMedieval Latincūrātus.
curato m (pluralcurati)
- priest
- vicar,parson,curate
cūrātō
- second/third-personsingularfutureactiveimperative ofcūrō
Fromcura +-ato (havingcura the sense ofpriest), or borrowed fromMedieval Latincūrātus, with the sense of "hability to heal souls". Doublet of the inheritedcurado.
- IPA(key): /kuˈɾato/[kuˈɾa.t̪o]
- Rhymes:-ato
- Syllabification:cu‧ra‧to
curato m (pluralcuratos)
- (religion)curate (ministry, also territory)