caro

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See also: Caro, ĉaro, čaro, čáro, and ca-rô

Aragonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin cārus (“dear; expensive”).

Adjective[edit]

caro m sg (feminine singular cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)

  1. expensive

References[edit]

Asturian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

caro

  1. neuter of caru

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Contraction of Old Catalan càreu, from Latin carabus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

caro m (plural caros)

  1. rowboat
  2. rabbitfish
    Synonyms: quimera, ullverd

Further reading[edit]

Esperanto[edit]

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia eo
Aleksej Miĥajloviĉ, caro de Rusio de 1645 ĝis 1676

Etymology[edit]

From Russian царь (carʹ), ultimately from Latin Caesar. Compare Polish car, Yiddish צאַר‎ (tsar). Doublet of Cezaro.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡saro]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -aro
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ro

Noun[edit]

caro (accusative singular caron, plural caroj, accusative plural carojn)

  1. (historical) tsar, czar
    Coordinate term: carino

Hypernyms[edit]

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese caro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cārus (“dear; expensive”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

caro m (feminine singular cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)

  1. expensive; costly
    Antonym: barato
    O barato adoito sai caro (proverb) ― Cheap frequently results expensive
  2. (literary) dear

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “caro” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
  • “caro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “caro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “caro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “caro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “caro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Esperanto caro, English czar, French tsar, German Zar, Italian zar, Russian царь (carʹ), Spanish zar.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

caro (plural cari)

  1. (historical) czar, tsar (no specific gender)

Derived terms[edit]

  • carala (“relating to the czar, tsar”)
  • carido (“czarevitch, tsarevich”)
  • carino (“czarina, tsarina”)
  • carulo (“a male czar, tsar”)

Istriot[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cārus.

Noun[edit]

caro

  1. dear; darling
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:
      Caro, cun quil visito bianco e russo.
      Dear, with that little white and red face.

Related terms[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cārus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural cari, feminine plural care, superlative carissimo)

  1. dear (beloved, or in the salutation of a letter), sweetheart
  2. dear, precious, expensive

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

caro m (plural cari, feminine cara)

  1. dear (darling)

Further reading[edit]

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

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-. Cognate with Dutch scheren, German scheren, Norwegian skjære, Swedish skära; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), English shear, Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“to separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.

Noun[edit]

Carnes bubulae.

carō f (genitive carnis); third declension

  1. (literally) flesh, meat of an animal
    Carne opus est, sī satur esse velīs. ― It is meat that you need, if you want to be sated.
    1. flesh of the human body, as the seat of the passions
  2. (metonymically) pulp of a fruit
  3. (metonymically) soft part of a precious stone
  4. (figurative) richness of discourse
Inflection[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative carō carnēs
Genitive carnis carnum
carnium
Dative carnī carnibus
Accusative carnem carnēs
Ablative carne carnibus
Vocative carō carnēs
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Descendants of caro in other languages

Etymology 2[edit]

Compare Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō), German scheren, English shear. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb[edit]

cārō (present infinitive cārere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stem

  1. (rare) I card (wool)
Conjugation[edit]
   Conjugation of cārō (third conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cārō cāris cārit cārimus cāritis cārunt
imperfect cārēbam cārēbās cārēbat cārēbāmus cārēbātis cārēbant
future cāram cārēs cāret cārēmus cārētis cārent
passive present cāror cāreris,
cārere 		cāritur cārimur cāriminī cāruntur
imperfect cārēbar cārēbāris,
cārēbāre 		cārēbātur cārēbāmur cārēbāminī cārēbantur
future cārar cārēris,
cārēre 		cārētur cārēmur cārēminī cārentur
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present cāram cārās cārat cārāmus cārātis cārant
imperfect cārerem cārerēs cāreret cārerēmus cārerētis cārerent
passive present cārar cārāris,
cārāre 		cārātur cārāmur cārāminī cārantur
imperfect cārerer cārerēris,
cārerēre 		cārerētur cārerēmur cārerēminī cārerentur
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — cāre — — cārite —
future — cāritō cāritō — cāritōte cāruntō
passive present — cārere — — cāriminī —
future — cāritor cāritor — — cāruntor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives cārere — — cārī — —
participles cārēns — — — — cārendus,
cārundus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
cārendī cārendō cārendum cārendō — —
Related terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun[edit]

carō m

  1. dative/ablative singular of caros

Etymology 4[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective[edit]

cārō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cārus

References[edit]

  • “caro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “caro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caro 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)
  • caro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)

Pali[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Alternative forms

Noun[edit]

caro

  1. nominative singular masculine of cara (“walker; frequenting”)

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese caro, from Latin cārus (“dear, beloved”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɾu
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ro

Adjective[edit]

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras, comparable, comparative mais caro, superlative o mais caro or caríssimo)

  1. greatly valued; dear; loved; lovable
  2. of high price; expensive

Further reading[edit]

  • “caro” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French carreau.

Noun[edit]

caro n (uncountable)

  1. (card games) diamonds (card suit)

Declension[edit]

declension of caro (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) caro caroul
genitive/dative (unui) caro caroului
vocative caroule

Somali[edit]

Noun[edit]

caro ?

  1. earth

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin cārus, cognate with French cher. From the same Latin root as the English verbs caress and cherish.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾo/ [ˈka.ɾo]
  • Rhymes: -aɾo
  • Syllabification: ca‧ro

Adjective[edit]

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)

  1. dear (loved)
    Synonym: querido
  2. expensive
    Synonym: costoso
    Antonyms: barato, económico

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Adverb[edit]

caro

  1. costly
    • 2009 June 4, Gerardo Lissardy, “Europa vota, con escepticismo y enfado”, in BBC Mundo‎[2]:
      Europa celebra elecciones legislativas a partir de este jueves marcada por problemas políticos y una crisis económica que podrían costarle caro a los partidos gobernantes...
      Europe celebrates legislative elections this Thursday marked by political problems and an economic crisis that could be costly for the ruling parties...

Further reading[edit]

Venetian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin carrus.

Noun[edit]

caro m (plural cari)

  1. wagon, cart, lorry, truck

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin cārus.

Adjective[edit]

caro (feminine singular cara, masculine plural cari, feminine plural care)

  1. dear (all senses)

Welsh[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

caro

  1. (literary) third-person singular present subjunctive of caru

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
caro garo ngharo charo
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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