caire

See also: Caire

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin quadrum (“square”). Compare the borrowed doublets quadre and quadro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkaj.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkaj.ɾe]

Noun

caire m (plural caires)

1. corner of a polygon or polyhedron
2. look, aspect, appearance
3. (archaic) regular tetragon, square

Derived terms

• cairar
• cairell
• caireta
• cairó
• escairar

 

Related terms

• quadre
• quadrar

Further reading

• “caire” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “caire” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Occitan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], inherited from Latin quadrum.

Noun

caire m (plural caires)

1. corner
2. side; edge

Related terms

• cairar

Etymology 2

From a variant form of the attested Old Occitan cazer (in which the stress was instead on the final syllable), from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cadō. Compare Catalan caure. The modern Catalan and Occitan words may have undergone a conjugation shift in which the stress moved to the first syllable or perhaps derived from unattested variant forms in their ancestral languages, corresponding to the original Latin third conjugation type (the attested Old Catalan and Old Occitan forms instead correspond to the Latin second conjugation, in this case the Vulgar Latin form *cadēre, which was the source of almost all other Romance cognates). Catalan and Occitan typically merged many second conjugation type Latin verbs (stressed -ēre) into the third conjugation type (unstressed -ere), so it is not unusual.

Alternative forms

• càder, càser

Verb

caire

1. to fall

Conjugation

    Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		caire			aver casent
gerund		èsser casut			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		casent			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	casi	cases	cai	casèm	casètz	cason
	imperfect	casiái	casiás	casiá	casiam	casiatz	casián
	preterite	cairai	cairàs	cairà	cairem	cairetz	cairàn
	future	casèri	casères	casèt	casèrem	casèretz	casèron
	conditional	cairiái	cairiás	cairiá	cairiam	cairiatz	cairián
	conditional 2nd form1
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	casa	casas	casa	casam	casatz	casan
	imperfect	casèsse	casèsses	casèsse	casèssem	casèssetz	casèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			cai		casam	casètz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

Derived terms

• casuda

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kariyā.

Compare Welsh caredd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarʲe/

Noun

caire f

1. crime, fault, sin

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	caireL	cairiL	cairi
Vocative	caireL	cairiL	cairi
Accusative	cairiN	cairiL	cairi
Genitive	caire	caireL	caireN
Dative	cairiL	cairib	cairib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: coir
• Scottish Gaelic: coire

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
caire	chaire	caire pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.