"pococurante" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˌpəʊ.kəʊ.kjʊəˈɹæn.ti/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌpoʊ.koʊ.kjuːˈɹɑːn.ti/ [US] Audio: en-us-pococurante.ogg [US] Forms: more pococurante [comparative], most pococurante [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from French pococurante, itself - from Pococurante, a nonchalant Venetian senator in Candide, coined by Voltaire based on Italian poco (“little”) + curante (“caring”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|pococurante}} French pococurante, {{m|fr|Pococurante}} Pococurante, {{uder|en|it|poco||little}} Italian poco (“little”), {{m|it|curante||caring}} curante (“caring”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} pococurante (comparative more pococurante, superlative most pococurante)
  1. Apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant. Categories (topical): People Synonyms: aloof, apathetic, disinterested, indifferent, nonchalant Translations (apathetic): obojętny (Polish), niedbały (Polish), nepăsător (Romanian), indiferent (Romanian), insensibil (Romanian), impasibil (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-pococurante-en-adj-hjgTwWSF Disambiguation of People: 62 38

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌpəʊ.kəʊ.kjʊəˈɹæn.ti/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌpoʊ.koʊ.kjuːˈɹɑːn.ti/ [US] Audio: en-us-pococurante.ogg [US] Forms: pococurantes [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French pococurante, itself - from Pococurante, a nonchalant Venetian senator in Candide, coined by Voltaire based on Italian poco (“little”) + curante (“caring”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|pococurante}} French pococurante, {{m|fr|Pococurante}} Pococurante, {{uder|en|it|poco||little}} Italian poco (“little”), {{m|it|curante||caring}} curante (“caring”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} pococurante (plural pococurantes)
  1. An apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant person. Derived forms: pococurantism
    Sense id: en-pococurante-en-noun-EmU6XPLK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 71 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 21 79

Noun [French]

Forms: pococurantes [plural]
Etymology: Coined based on Italian. See above. Etymology templates: {{uder|fr|it|-}} Italian Head templates: {{fr-noun|mfbysense}} pococurante m or f by sense (plural pococurantes)
  1. one who is apathetic Tags: by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine Synonyms: je-m'en-foutiste Derived forms: pococurantisme

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.