curiose
Dictionary entries
- Entry →curiosus, curiosa -um, curiosior -or -us, curiosissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
careful, diligent, painstaking; attentive; fussy; meddlesome, interfering;; labored/elaborate/complicated; eager to know, curious, inquisitive; careworn;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →curiosus, curiosi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
spy, one who is prying; scout; informer; class of secret spys; secret police;
voc. sg. - Entry →curiose, curiosius, curiosissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
carefully/attentively, w/care; elaborately; curiously/inquisitively, w/curiosity
Examples
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...litteratos homines dicere audivi, qui plerasque Plauti comoedias curiose atque contente lectitarunt, non indicibus Aelii nec Sedigiti..."Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...multa fuit; ad hoc scripta omnia antiquiora tam curiose spectabat et aut virtutes pensitabat aut vitia rimabatur..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...tussis alicuius aut sternutamentum aut musca parum curiose fugata in rabiem agat aut obuersatus canis aut clauis neglegentis..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...arte scindantur aues in frusta non enormia, quam curiose infelices pueruli ebriorum sputa detergeant: ex his elegantiae lautitiaeque..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...stricto gladio extra ostium procucurrit, involuta sinistra manu curiose, et mulierem tanquam hoc loco — salvum sit, quod tango..."Divus Vespasianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Ipse ne vestigium quidem de hoc, quamvis satis curiose inquirerem, inveni. II. Vespasianus natus est in Sabinis ultra..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...enim, quibus loquendi ratio non desit, invenias quos curiose potius loqui dixeris quam Latine, quo modo et illa..."
