Etymology

curaçao

Today it means: A liqueur made from eau de vie, sugar, and dried peel of sweet and sour oranges, naturally colorless but typically artificially colored blue. Full definition →

Portuguese curação ← Latin cūrātiōnem
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curaçao · noun1

  1. Latin · derived fromcūrātiōnem“cure”
  2. Portuguese · derived fromcuração“cure, healing”
  3. English todaycuraçao

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch curaçao, named for the island Curaçao in the Dutch Antilles, ultimately probably a Portuguese transcription of a Lokono endonym but literally equivalent to Portuguese curação (“cure, healing”), from Latin cūrātiōnem (“cure”), from cūrō (“to cure”) + -ātiō (“-ation”, suffix forming abstract nouns), from cūra (“attention, care”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix), q.v.

Curaçao · proper noun2

  1. Spanish · derived fromCuraçao
  2. English todayCuraçao

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch Curaçao, from Spanish Curaçao, probably a transcription of a Caquetío (Arawakan) endonym.

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