Latin

Noun

cūriōsitās f ‎(genitive cūriōsitātis); third declension

1. curiosity, inquisitiveness

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• Albanian: kurreshtje (borrowed)
• English: curiosity
• French: curiosité
• Norwegian: kuriositet (Bokmål), kuriositet (Nynorsk)

References

• curiositas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• CURIOSITAS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “curiositas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.