Wiktionary

cara

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cara"

AragoneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

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NounEdit

cara f (plural caras)

  1. (anatomy) face

ReferencesEdit

AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾa/, [ˈka.ɾa]

NounEdit

cara f (plural cares)

  1. (anatomy) face
    Synonym: rostru

CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

NounEdit

cara f (plural cares)

  1. face (front part of the head)
  2. face (public image)
  3. heads (side of a coin)
  4. face, surface
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

AdjectiveEdit

cara

  1. feminine singular of car

Further readingEdit

Crimean TatarEdit

NounEdit

cara

  1. wound

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cara
nominative cara
genitive caranıñ
dative carağa
accusative caranı
locative carada
ablative caradan

Derived termsEdit

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

cara

  1. third-person singular past historic of carer

GalicianEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese cara, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

NounEdit

cara f (plural caras)

  1. face (of a person or animal)
    Synonym: rostro
  2. expression; gesture
    • 2016, Malandrómeda, Encontro con !@#$%!! [song]:
      Os anos que botei soñando con este momento
      Funche compoñendo un discurso co tempo.
      Na cabeza creaba imaxes claras
      Dos teus ollos, escoitándome, e das túas caras
      The years I passed dreaming with this moment
      I composed a discourse along the time.
      Inside my head I was making a clear image
      of your eyes, while you was listening to me, and of your gestures
    Synonyms: aceno, xesto
  3. surface (face of a polyhedron)

PrepositionEdit

cara

  1. to
    Synonym: para

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

AdjectiveEdit

cara

  1. feminine singular of caro

Further readingEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

IndonesianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Malay cara, from Classical Malay cara.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃa.ra/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ra
  • Rhymes: -ra, -a

NounEdit

cara (plural cara-cara, first-person possessive caraku, second-person possessive caramu, third-person possessive caranya)

  1. way
  2. manner
  3. style
    Synonyms: corak, gaya
  4. effort
    Synonyms: ikhtiar, usaha

Alternative formsEdit

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

IrishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Irish cara (“friend, relation”) (compare Scottish Gaelic caraid, Manx carrey), from Old Irish carae (“friend, relation”), from Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear”) (compare Latin cārus, English charity, whore).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cara m (genitive singular carad, nominative plural cairde)

  1. friend

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cara

Fifth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cara cairde
Vocative a chara a chairde
Genitive carad cairde
Dative cara
caraid (archaic, dialectal) 		cairde

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cara na cairde
Genitive an charad na gcairde
Dative leis an gcara
leis an gcaraid (archaic, dialectal)

don chara
don charaid (archaic, dialectal)

leis na cairde
  • Alternative genitive plural: carad (in certain phrases, otherwise archaic)

Derived termsEdit

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cara chara gcara
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈka.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ara
  • Hyphenation: cà‧ra

AdjectiveEdit

cara

  1. feminine singular of caro

NounEdit

cara f (plural care)

  1. female equivalent of caro

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inflected form of cārus (“beloved”).

AdjectiveEdit

cāra

  1. inflection of cārus:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

AdjectiveEdit

cārā

  1. ablative feminine singular of cārus

Etymology 2Edit

Apparently borrowed from Ancient Greek κάρᾱ (kárā, “head, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n-, from the root *ḱerh₂- (“top, head, horn”). Cognate to Latin cornū, corvus, crabrō, cerebrum and cernuus.

Attested tenuously in a single late Latin glossary, where it is given as Greek, and then in medieval Latin documents from Spain. Appears in Romance languages with the meaning “face, facial features” (corresponding to Latin vultus).

PronunciationEdit

  • (Proto-Western-Romance) IPA(key): /ˈkara/

NounEdit

cara f (genitive carae); first declension

  2. (Late Latin, rare, glosses, Medieval Latin, uncertain) the head
    Synonym: caput
    Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum, 4 587.8, (etymologising on Virgil's Georgics III, 269):
    'Gargara' quasi cara, caros, idest 'caput, capitis'
    Antidotarium Bambergense, 19 :
    dente […] dolentibus et carā satis antidotī adpositum prōdest
DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cara carae
Genitive carae carārum
Dative carae carīs
Accusative caram carās
Ablative carā carīs
Vocative cara carae
DescendantsEdit
  • North Italian:
    • Old Ligurian: cera
      • → Gallurese: cera
      • Ligurian: cêa
      • → Sassarese: cera
    • Piedmontese: cera
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

  • “cara” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
  • “cara”, in Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, digitalized in Wörterbuchnetz des Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Version 01/21, accessed 2021-06-02
  • cara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (de) Koine und Diglossie, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 493

LatvianEdit

NounEdit

cara m

  1. genitive singular form of cars

MalayEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Sanskrit आचार (ācāra, “behaviour, good conduct; usage; custom; rule”), from Sanskrit चर् (car, “to move, to practice”).

Alternatively, from Persian چاره‎ (čâra, “remedy; help; business; scheme; means, manner, mode”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cara (Jawi spelling چارا‎, plural cara-cara, informal 1st possessive caraku, 2nd possessive caramu, 3rd possessive caranya)

  1. manner, means, method
  2. style, fashion

Further readingEdit

Middle IrishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish carae, from Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear”) (compare Latin cārus, English charity, whore).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cara

  1. friend
    coscc carat ― a friend's advice
  2. relative

DeclensionEdit

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cara, carait carait, cairde
Vocative cara, carait cairde
Accusative carait cairdiu, cairde
Genitive carat carat, cairde
Dative carait cairdib

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

MutationEdit

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cara chara cara
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

Old SaxonEdit

NounEdit

cara f

  1. Alternative spelling of kara

PaliEdit

Alternative formsEdit

Alternative forms

NounEdit

cara m

  1. act of walking about, act of frequenting
  2. one who walks about, one who frequents
  3. messenger, spy

DeclensionEdit

Declension table of "cara" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)carocarā
Accusative (second)caraṃcare
Instrumental (third)carenacarehi or carebhi
Dative (fourth)carassa or carāya or caratthaṃcarānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)carasmā or caramhā or carācarehi or carebhi
Genitive (sixth)carassacarānaṃ
Locative (seventh)carasmiṃ or caramhi or carecaresu
Vocative (calling)caracarā

DescendantsEdit

  • → Thai: จร (jɔɔn, “to wander”)

VerbEdit

cara

  1. second-person singular imperative active of carati (“to walk”)

ReferencesEdit

Pali Text Society (1921-1925), “cara”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sa.ra/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ara
  • Syllabification: ca‧ra

NounEdit

cara m pers

  1. genitive/accusative singular of car

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • Rhymes: -aɾɐ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ra

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese cara, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrh₂esn.

NounEdit

cara f (plural caras)

  1. face
    Synonyms: face, rosto
  2. heads (side of coin)
    cara ou coroa ― head or tails
    Synonym: anverso
    Antonym: coroa
  3. (informal) resemblance, appearance (perceived characteristic of a person, object or situation)
    Ele tem cara de idiota. ― He looks like an idiot.
QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cara.

Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

cara m (plural caras)

  1. (Brazil, colloquial) man, fellow, guy and any adult male
    Synonyms: bicho, camarada, cabra, tipo
QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cara.

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin cāra.

AdjectiveEdit

cara

  1. feminine singular of caro (“expensive, dear”)
QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:caro.

SardinianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish cara and/or Catalan cara, both from Late Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára).

NounEdit

cara f (plural caras)

  1. face

ReferencesEdit

  • Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), “kára”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾa/ [ˈka.ɾa]
  • Audio (Latin America)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɾa
  • Syllabification: ca‧ra

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

NounEdit

cara f (plural caras)

  1. (anatomy) face (the front part of the head)
    Synonyms: rostro, haz
  2. face (one's facial expression)
  3. face (the frontal aspect of something)
    Synonyms: frente, fachada
  4. (colloquial) gall, nerve (impudence)
  5. (geometry) face (any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron)
  6. side (of paper, a card, a coin)
  7. heads (side of a coin)
    Synonym: anverso
    Antonyms: cruz, (Argentina) ceca
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

AdjectiveEdit

cara

  1. feminine singular of caro

Further readingEdit

VenetianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

cara

  1. feminine singular of caro

WelshEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • câr (literary, third-person singular present/future)
  • caraf (first-person singular future)
  • cariff (colloquial, third-person singular future)
  • carith (colloquial, third-person singular future)

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

cara

  1. inflection of caru:
    1. first-person singular future colloquial
    2. third-person singular present indicative/future literary
    3. second-person singular imperative

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cara gara nghara chara
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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