creatura

From Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

• IPA^(key): /krea̯ˈtu.ra/, [kr̺eä̯ˈt̪uːr̺ä]
• Stress: creatùra
• Hyphenation: crea‧tu‧ra

creatura f (plural creature)

1. creature
   • 1224, Francis of Assisi, Cantico di Frate Sole‎, Biblioteca del Sacro Convento di San Francesco:

     Laudato ſie mi ſignore cū tucte le tue creature, ſpetialm̄te meſſoꝛ lo fr̄e ſole […]

     Be praised, my Lord, through all Your creatures, especially my lord Brother Sun, […]

   • 1320, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso‎, Johannes Numeister, published 1472, Canto I:

     Vergine Madre figlia del tuo figlio ¶ humile et alta piu che creatura ¶ termino fiſſo decterno conſiglio […]

     Thou Virgin Mother, daughter of thy Son, ¶ humble and high beyond all other creature, ¶ the limit fixed of the eternal counsel, […]

2. (regional) an infant or small child
3. (figuratively) protege

• carature

Substantivization of the feminine future participle form of creō (“I create, make”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kre.aːˈtuː.ra/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kre.aˈtu.ra/, [kre.aˈtuː.ra]

creātūra f (genitive creātūrae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. A created thing; creature.
2. Creation

First declension.

creātūra

1. nominative feminine singular of creātūrus
2. nominative neuter plural of creātūrus
3. accusative neuter plural of creātūrus
4. vocative feminine singular of creātūrus
5. vocative neuter plural of creātūrus

creātūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of creātūrus

• creatura in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• creatura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• creatura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Borrowed from Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

creatura f (oblique plural creaturas, nominative singular creatura, nominative plural creaturas)

1. creature (chiefly a non-human animal or being)
   • c. 1130, Marcabru, pastorela:

     Toza, tota creatura / Revertis a sa natura [...].

     Girl, every creature reverts to its nature.

From Late Latin creātūra, from Latin creō.

• IPA^(key): /kɾe.a.ˈtu.ɾa/

creatura f

1. creature, living being
2. a newborn child

• Galician: criatura
• Portuguese: criatura

creatura f (plural creaturas)

1. Obsolete form of criatura.