caros

See also: ca-rô

Latin

Etymology

Cognate with the Ancient Greek κάρος (káros, “heavy sleep, stupor”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ros/, [ˈkärɔs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ros/, [ˈkäːros]

Noun

caros m (genitive carī); second declension

1. heavy sleep, stupor, torpor

Declension

• In medical Latin, this noun is occasionally treated as third declension.

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	caros	carī
Genitive	carī	carōrum
Dative	carō	carīs
Accusative	caron	carōs
Ablative	carō	carīs
Vocative	care	carī

Descendants

• English: carotid

References

• “caros”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caros 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)
• caros in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Latvian

Noun

caros m

1. (deprecated template usage) locative plural form of cars

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Portuguese

Adjective

caros

1. (deprecated template usage) Masculine plural of adjective caro.

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾos/ [ˈka.ɾos]

Adjective

caros

1. (deprecated template usage) Masculine plural of adjective caro.