Translation
curious, inquisitive
Word origin
An Esperanto compound of sci- ('know', from Latin scire) and vol- ('want', from Latin velle and German wollen) with the adjective ending -a: literally 'wanting to know'.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- sci + vol + -a
- English cognates
- science, volition
Examples
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The curious child asked about everything.
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I am curious: what happened yesterday?
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She was too curious about other people's lives.
is one of Esperanto's tidiest self-portraits: scii plus voli, wanting to know. It only ever describes the person doing the wondering; a curious object, an odd one, is or . English "I am curious whether..." comes out as scivolas, ..., using the verb scivoli directly. o is healthy curiosity as a trait, and the person who has perhaps a little too much of it.
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