Curaçao

• Curacao

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, literally from curação (“cure, healing”) but probably a transcription of a Lokono endonym.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkjuːɹəsaʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkuːɹəˈsaʊ/

Curaçao

1. An island in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

• curacoa, curaçoa

From Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym but sometimes folk-etymologized as derived from Portuguese Ilha da Curação (“Isle of Healing”) from curação (“cure, healing”) in reference to the island's use as a place of recovery for sailors sick with scurvy and other ailments or from modification of coração (“heart”) in reference to its supposed importance in local trade.

• IPA^(key): /kyːraːˈsʌu/, /kuːraːˈsʌu/
• (Limburg) IPA^(key): /kyːraːˈzaʊ̯/

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• Hyphenation: Cu‧ra‧çao

Curaçao n

1. An island and constituent country of the Netherlands.

From Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym.

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁa.so/
• Homophone: curaçao

Curaçao m

1. Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Netherlands).

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym.

• IPA^(key): /ky.raˈsaʊ̯/, /ky.raˈsaː.o/

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Curaçao n (proper noun, genitive Curaçaos or (optionally with an article) Curaçao)

1. Curaçao (an island and constituent country of the Netherlands)

Curaçao m (strong, genitive Curaçaos or Curaçao, plural Curaçaos or Curaçao)

1. curaçao (liqueur)

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, from Portuguese Curação, probably as a transcription of a Lokono endonym. Doublet of Kòrsou.

Curaçao

1. Curaçao

   Synonym: Kòrsou

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Portuguese curação.

• IPA^(key): /kju.raˈsa.ɔ/
• Rhymes: -aɔ
• Syllabification: Cu‧ra‧ça‧o

Curaçao n (indeclinable)

1. Curaçao (island)

• Curaçao in Polish dictionaries at PWN