carus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κάρος (káros, “deep sleep”) .
Noun
[edit]carus
- (medicine) coma with complete insensibility; deep lethargy
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “carus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *kāros, from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros, from *keh₂- (“to desire, to wish”). Cognate to Sanskrit चारु (cā́ru, “dear, beloved; elegant; esteemed; lovely”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkaː.rus/, [ˈkäːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.rus/, [ˈkäːrus]
Adjective
[edit]cārus (feminine cāra, neuter cārum, comparative cārior, superlative cārissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cārus | cāra | cārum | cārī | cārae | cāra | |
Genitive | cārī | cārae | cārī | cārōrum | cārārum | cārōrum | |
Dative | cārō | cārō | cārīs | ||||
Accusative | cārum | cāram | cārum | cārōs | cārās | cāra | |
Ablative | cārō | cārā | cārō | cārīs | |||
Vocative | cāre | cāra | cārum | cārī | cārae | cāra |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings
References
[edit]- “carus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “carus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- carus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to feel affection for a person: carum habere aliquem
- to be dear to some one: carum esse alicui
- to be dear to some one: carum atque iucundum esse alicui
- (ambiguous) corn is dear: annona cara est
- to feel affection for a person: carum habere aliquem
- “carus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “carus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Latvian
[edit]Noun
[edit]carus m
- accusative plural of cars
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- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂-
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
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- Latin 2-syllable words
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- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
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