curial
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French curial, from Latin cūriālis.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkjʊəɹɪəl/
Adjective
curial (comparative more curial, superlative most curial)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a court; courtly.
- Pertaining to the papal curia.
- 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 116:
- In favouring the well-connected, politically and culturally sophisticated Italian merchants and diplomats who regularly arrived in England on curial business Henry killed two birds with one stone, gratifying popes by the attention and respect shown to their intimates, and employing them as his own eyes and ears at Rome […].
Noun
curial (plural curials)
- A member of a curia, especially of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adjective
curial (feminine curiale, masculine plural curiaux, feminine plural curiales)
- curial (all senses)
Related terms
Further reading
- “curial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Adjective
curial m or n (feminine singular curială, masculine plural curiali, feminine and neuter plural curiale)
Declension
Declension of curial
References
- curial in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Related terms
Further reading
- “curial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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