carus

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάρος (káros, “deep sleep”) .

Noun

carus

1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• Curas, arcus, scaur

Latin

Alternative forms

• charus (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.rus/, [ˈkäːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.rus/, [ˈkäːrus]

Adjective

cārus (feminine cāra, neuter cārum, comparative cārior, superlative cārissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. dear, beloved
2. costly, expensive, valued

   Synonyms: pretiōsus, dīves, impēnsus, antīquus

   Antonym: vīlis

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
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

• cāritās

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • cur
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: caro
  • Sicilian: caru
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: chèr
  • Friulian: cjâr
  • Ligurian: câo, câro, câio
  • Lombard: car

    Alpine: chèr, ciar, cèr

    Ossolano: ciar

  • Piedmontese: car, chèr
  • Romagnol: chèr, caer
  • Venetian: caro
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: chier
  • French: cher
  • Old Norman: ker, kier, quer
    • Norman: chiaer (Guernsey), chièr (Jersey), quer, quièr
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: car, caro
  • Catalan: car
  • Occitan: car, care

    Nord-Occitan: char

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: caru
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: caro
    • Galician: caro
    • Portuguese: caro
  • Spanish: caro

Borrowings

• → Old Norse: kærr, kę́rr
  • Icelandic: kær
  • Faroese: kærur
  • Norn: kårr
  • Norwegian: kjær
  • Old Swedish: kær
    • Swedish: kär
  • Danish: kær

References

• “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
    
• “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

Noun

carus m

1. accusative plural of cars