curial

Borrowed from Middle French curial, from Latin cūriālis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkjʊəɹɪəl/

curial (comparative more curial, superlative most curial)

1. (obsolete) Pertaining to a court; courtly.
2. Pertaining to the papal curia.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 116:

     In favouring the well-connected, politically and culturally sophisticated Italian merchants and diplomats who regularly arrived in England on curial business Henry killed two birds with one stone, gratifying popes by the attention and respect shown to their intimates, and employing them as his own eyes and ears at Rome […].

curial (plural curials)

1. A member of a curia, especially of that of Rome or the later Italian sovereignties.

• Ulrica, Uralic, lauric, uracil

From Latin curialis.

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curial (feminine curiale, masculine plural curiaux, feminine plural curiales)

1. curial (all senses)

• curie

• “curial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin curialis or French curial.

curial m or n (feminine singular curială, masculine plural curiali, feminine and neuter plural curiale)

1. curial

• curial in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

From Latin curialis.

curial (plural curiales)

1. curial

• curia

• “curial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014