curva

Borrowed from Italian curva (“curve”).

Inter Milan fans in the curva at San Siro.

curva (plural curvas)

1. The bank of seats behind the goal, especially in continental European stadia, where the most dedicated fans sit.
   • 1996, Vic Duke, Liz Crolley, Football, Nationality and the State, Taylor & Francis:

     The mutual influences (or 'interference') between fans in the curva and political extremism has several dimensions.

   • 1997, Gary Armstrong, Richard Giulianotti, Entering the field: new perspectives on world football, Berg Publishers:

     Legacies of political commitment have influenced the ultras associations in the curvas.

   • 2006, Peter Bourne, Passion in the Piazza, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 11:

     Even arriving two hours before the game was not enough to guarantee a seat in the curva.

curva

1. feminine singular of curvu

curva f (plural curves)

1. (geometry) curve
2. curve (of a road)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈkur.bə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈkur.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈkuɾ.va]

curva f (plural curves)

1. Alternative form of corba (“curve”)

• “curva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Feminine of curvo (“curved”), from Latin curvus (“bent”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkuɾβɐ]

curva f (plural curvas)

1. curve (a gentle bend)
2. curve (a curved line)

   Antonym: recta

curva

1. feminine singular of curvo

curva

1. inflection of curvar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “curva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “curva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “curva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkur.va/
• Rhymes: -urva
• Hyphenation: cùr‧va

Nominalized feminine singular of curvo (“curved”, adjective).

curva f (plural curve)

1. bend, curve, trajectory
2. the bank of seats at the ends of a football/soccer pitch

• curvimetro

Unknown

• curba

curva f (plural curve) (obsolete)

1. (veterinary medicine) Synonym of corba

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

curva f sg

1. feminine singular of curvo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

curva

1. inflection of curvare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• curva¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• curva² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

curva

1. inflection of curvus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

curvā

1. ablative feminine singular of curvus

• curva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• Hyphenation: cur‧va

Feminine of curvo (“curved”), from Latin curvus (“bent”).

curva f (plural curvas)

1. curve (a gentle bend)

   Synonym: curvatura

2. curve (a curved line)

• reta

curva

1. feminine singular of curvo

curva

1. inflection of curvar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkur.va/

curva f sg

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of curvă

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuɾba/ [ˈkuɾ.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -uɾba
• Syllabification: cur‧va

From curvo.

curva f (plural curvas)

1. curve

curva

1. feminine singular of curvo

curva

1. inflection of curvar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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