cúria
Portuguese, noun
cúria is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “curia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, curia is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “na Roma Antiga, era a parte da estrutura social que era composta pela reunião de algumas famílias, como nas…”.
What does cúria mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecuria
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. na Roma Antiga, era a parte da estrutura social que era composta pela reunião de algumas famílias, como nas fratrias da Grécia, caracterizadas pela existência de um chefe, denominado curião 2. conjunto de curiais
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cúria
- cúrias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cúria
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cúria in Portuguese?
cúria appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).