caure

See also: cauré

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan caure, from Latin cadere, from Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”). Old Catalan also had a variant caér, from a Late Latin variant cadēre.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -awɾe

Verb

caure (first-person singular present caic, first-person singular preterite caiguí, past participle caigut)

1. (intransitive) to fall (to come down, to drop, to descend)
   • 2019 October 12, “Rècord històric en una marató: Kipchoge destrossa el mur de les dues hores”, in Diari de Girona‎^[1]:

     El kenyà Eliud Kipchoge, rècord mundial de marató, va fer caure aquest dissabte a Viena el llegendari mur de les dues hores sobre la distància amb un temps de 1h59: 40, una marca que no obstant això no serà oficial per les ajudes externes que va rebre.

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2. (intransitive) to fall (to move to a lower position due to gravity)
3. to fall (upon) (to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance)
4. (with a) to fall into (to go into something by falling)
5. (intransitive) to fall into (to enter a negative state)
6. (intransitive) to fall into, to fall for; to be ensnared by

   caure en temptació

   to fall into temptation

7. (intransitive) to fall down, to collapse (to fall to the ground)
8. (intransitive) to fall (to become)

   caure malalt

   to fall ill

9. (intransitive) to fall, to collapse (to be overthrown or defeated)
10. (intransitive) to be granted or awarded
11. (intransitive) to fall on (to occur on a particular day)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of caure (second conjugation, irregular, with velar infix)

infinitive			caure
gerund			caient
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		caigut		caiguda
		plural		caiguts		caigudes
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	caic	caus	cau	caiem	caieu	cauen
	imperfect	queia	queies	queia	quèiem	quèieu	queien
	future	cauré	cauràs	caurà	caurem	caureu	cauran
	preterite	caiguí	caigueres	caigué	caiguérem	caiguéreu	caigueren
	conditional	cauria	cauries	cauria	cauríem	cauríeu	caurien
subjunctive		jo	tu	ell/ella vostè	nosaltres nós	vosaltres vós	ells/elles vostès
	present	caigui	caiguis	caigui	caiguem	caigueu	caiguin
	imperfect	caigués	caiguessis	caigués	caiguéssim	caiguéssiu	caiguessin
imperative		—	tu	vostè	nosaltres	vosaltres vós	vostès
	affirmative	—	cau	caigui	caiguem	caieu	caiguin
	negative (no)	—	no caiguis	no caigui	no caiguem	no caigueu	no caiguin

Derived terms

• caient
• caiguda
• caure bé
• caure malament
• escaure
• no tenir on caure mort
• recaure

 

Further reading

• “caure” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “caure”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “caure” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “caure” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Noun

caure

1. vocative singular of caurus

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Alternative forms

• caare, caar

Etymology

From Middle English care, from Old English caru, from Proto-West Germanic *karu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔː/
• Homophones: car, core

Noun

caure

1. care

Related terms

• caars

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 29