Noun: curro
Gender: m
Hyphenation: cùr‧ro
| Singular m | curro |
| Plural m | curri |
Sample Sentences
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Poi, procedendo di mio sguardo il curro, vidine un’altra come sangue rossa, mostrando un’oca bianca più che burro. (Proceeding then the current of my sight, another of them saw I, red as blood, display a goose more white than butter is.) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 58–63; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Nouns inflected like curro
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin currus (“chariot”), from Proto-Italic *korzos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), derived from *ḱers- (“to run”). Cognate with English horse, and Welsh car (“car”). Doublet of carro. See: Latin Nouns '
currus', English Nouns '
horse'.
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