caro

See also: Caro, ĉaro, čaro, and ca-rô

Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

1. expensive

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “caro”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡saro]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: ca‧ro

Noun

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

1. tsar, czar

   Coordinate term: carino

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Ido

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡saro/

Noun

caro (plural cari)

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

Derived terms

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

 

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin cārus.

Noun

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

• carisa

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cārus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ro/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aro

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• carino
• carissimo

 

Related terms

• carezza

Noun

caro m (plural cari, feminine cara)

1. dear (darling)

Anagrams

• acro, arco, ocra, orca, roca

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Latin

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) 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 (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.roː/, [ˈkäroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ro/, [ˈkäːro]

Noun

carō f (genitive carnis); third declension

1. flesh, meat
2. pulp of a fruit
3. body

Declension

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

• carneus
• *carnicea
• carnicula
• carnifex
• carnificīna
• carnificō
• carniger
• carnisūmus
• carnivorus
• carnulentus
• carnālis
• carnārium
• carnārius
• carnātiō
• carnātus
• carnōsus
• concarnō
• dēcarnō
• incarnō

 

Related terms

• carnificius
• carnificātor
• carnificātus
• carnivorax
• carnālia
• carnāliter
• carnālitās
• carnōsitās

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: carni
• Asturian: carne
• Dalmatian: cuarne
• Friulian: cjâr, cjar
• Italian: carne
• Middle French: carnage
  • → English: carnage
  • French: carnage
• Old French: char, charn, caroigne
  • English: carrion
  • Gallo: char
  • Middle French: chair, char, charogne
    • French: chair, charogne
    • → Norman: chair
  • Norman: carogne
  • Walloon: tchå
• Italian: carogna
  • Spanish: carroña
• Old Occitan: carn, charn
  • Catalan: carn
  • Occitan: carn
• Old Galician-Portuguese: carne
  • Galician: carne
  • Portuguese: carne
• Romanian: carne
• Romansch: charn, tgarn
• Sardinian: carre, carri
• Sicilian: carni
• Spanish: carne
• Venetian: carne

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.roː/, [ˈkäːroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ro/, [ˈkäːro]

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) cārō

1. dative masculine singular of cārus
2. ablative masculine singular of cārus
3. dative neuter singular of cārus
4. ablative neuter singular of cārus

References

• “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)
    

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ɾu/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ro

Adjective

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cārus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾo/ [ˈka.ɾo]

Adjective

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

1. dear (loved)

   Synonym: querido

2. expensive

   Synonym: costoso

   Antonyms: barato, económico

Derived terms

• carísimo
• lo barato sale caro

 

Related terms

• carero
• carestía
• careza
• caricia
• cariño
• encarecer
• encarecimiento

 

Adverb

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

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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Venetian

Noun

caro m (plural cari)

1. wagon, cart, lorry, truck

Adjective

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

1. dear (all senses)

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarɔ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːrɔ/, /ˈkarɔ/

Verb

caro

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

Mutation

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.