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Definition: CURIA |
CURIANoun1. The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana. 2. Any court of justice. 3. The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. 4. The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house. 5. The place of assembly of one of these divisions. 6. One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. |
Date "CURIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Curia \Cu"ri*a\, noun. [Latin]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Innocence | Adjective: innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian; (artless). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Roman Catholic Church retains an assembly called the Roman Curia although its function is very different from the Roman Curia of the 1st Century BC.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Curia."
Crosswords: CURIA |
| English words defined with "CURIA": Curle ♦ Protonotary. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CURIA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (curia), Latin (court), Spanish (curia). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tarde Desportiva na Curia (1936) Festas da Curia (1927) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | The Holy See | The Pope rules the Holy See through the Roman Curia and the Papal Civil Service. (references) |
The Holy See | The Secretariat of State, under the Cardinal Secretary of State, directs and coordinates the Curia. (references) | |
The Holy See | The Roman Curia consists of the Secretariat of State, six Congregations, three Tribunals, 12 Pontifical Councils, and a complex of offices that administer church affairs at the highest level. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CURIA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.50% of the time. "CURIA" is used about 109 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.5% | 103 | 32,137 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.5% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 109 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CURIA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Curia | Last name | 100 | 73,895 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Portugal | Sociedade das Aguas da Curia SA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "CURIA": curia Romana. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
curia | 18 |
curia roman | 4 |
curia hotel | 3 |
curia iura novit | 3 |
curia regis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CURIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | العشيرة (name). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | curie (cure, Curie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kurie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | curia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | quaiyl phaabagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uriacay cúria. (various references) курия. (various references) curia. (various references) mahkeme (court, court of justice, court of law, forum, law court, trial, tribunal). (various references) курія. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | curiae, curiam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CURIA": curiae, curial. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CURIA": mercurial, mercurially, mercurialness, mercurialnesses, mercurials, nonmercurial, organomercurial, organomercurials. (additional references) | |
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"CURIA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: auria, Cagiva, caira, caraa, Caria, cariar, cariat, carida, caroa, Cedria, cere, cerian, Cervia, cetia, chria, ciria, Cirio, Corcia, Coria, Corie, Corio, coroa, Corriad, coryzal, cria, Crrreak, cruci, crucia, crucian, Cruciani, Crudia, cruir, cruix, crusia, Cryiia, cubia, Cucina, cuir, cuire, cuirim, cupio, Cuprija, cuprina, cura, curam, Curdie, Curdiea, curee, curi, curiam, curian, curiar, curias, curic, curiew, curin, Curina, Curinan, curit, curra, curri, currias, Curric, curua, Curva, cuzie, cyriac, Czurda, Juripa, korhian, kuia, Kuriwa, nuria, quria, Rucia, Shurikat, Uchiza. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CURIA" (pronounced 'Cu"ri*a'): Acetonuria, Acrita, Adularia, Adversaria, Albuminuria, Alcyonaria, Anisocoria, Aporia, Appendicularia, Apteria, Araucaria, Aria, Auricularia, Azoturia, Balistraria, Baria, Bipinnaria, Brachiolaria, Cafeteria, calceolaria, Calvaria, Carinaria, Cercaria, Ceria, Chyluria, Cineraria, Cnidaria, Convallaria, Dataria, Dysphoria, filaria, Fistularia, Gastrotricha, Gloria, Glucosuria, Glycosuria, hematuria, Homoeomeria, hysteria, Ichthyosauria, Krameria, Laminaria, Lemuria, Lepidosauria, Lucernaria, malaria, Memoria, Mercenaria, Mesosauria, Microbacteria. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: auric. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-r-u" | |
-1 letter: uric. | |
-2 letters: air, arc, car, cur, ria. | |
-3 letters: ai, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-r-u" | |
+1 letter: anuric, curari, curiae, curial, uracil, uranic, uratic. | |
+2 letters: acquire, auricle, caribou, carious, charqui, cranium, crucial, crucian, cuirass, cumarin, curaris, curiosa, curtail, curtain, daturic, fumaric, haircut, iracund, puranic, quadric, quartic, raucity, saucier, uracils, uraemic. | |
+3 letters: accruing, acervuli, acicular, aciduria, acquired, acquirer, acquires, anuretic, auricled, auricles, auricula, autarkic, avicular, brachium, caesuric, caribous, causerie, charquid, charquis, circular, cislunar, coumaric, coumarin, craniums, crucians, cruciate, culinary, cultivar, cumarins, curacies, curarine, curarize, curating, curative, curtails, curtains, eucharis, francium, gracious, haircuts, lubrical, manicure, multicar, muricate, peculiar, piacular, pirarucu, quadrics, quartics, reticula, rubrical, rustical, scarious, spicular, subacrid, subvicar, surgical, suricate, taciturn, turrical, uncaring, uralitic, uranitic, uranylic, urticant, urticate. | |
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