curaçao
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from Dutch curaçao, named for the island Curaçao in the Dutch Antilles, ultimately probably a Portuguese transcription of a Lokono endonym but literally equivalent to Portuguese curação (“cure, healing”), from Latin cūrātiō (“cure”), from cūrāre (“to cure”) + -ātiō (“-ation: forming abstract nouns”), from cūra (“attention, care”) + -āre (“forming verbs”), q.v.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkjuːɹəsaʊ/, /ˈkjuːɹəsəʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsaʊ/, /ˈk(j)ʊəɹ.əˌsoʊ/, /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsaʊ/, /ˌk(j)ʊəɹ.əˈsoʊ/
Noun[edit]
curaçao (countable and uncountable, plural curaçaos)
- A liqueur made from eau de vie, sugar, and dried peel of sweet and sour oranges, naturally colorless but typically artificially colored blue.
Translations[edit]
liqueur
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References[edit]
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Dutch curaçao, named after the island Curaçao.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
curaçao m (plural curaçaos)
Further reading[edit]
- “curaçao”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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