cara

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cara f (plural caras)

1. (anatomy) face

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cara”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾa/, [ˈka.ɾa]

cara f (plural cares)

1. (anatomy) face

   Synonym: rostru

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -aɾa

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

cara f (plural cares)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cara

1. feminine singular of car

• “cara” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

cara

1. wound

• carağa tuz basmaq (“rub salt in the wound”)
• carasın teşmek (“scratch one's wound”)

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁa/
• Homophones: caras, carât

cara

1. third-person singular past historic of carer

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑɾɐ]

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

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)

cara

1. to

   Synonym: para

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

• “cara” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

• “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.

From Malay cara, from Classical Malay cara.

• From Javanese ꦕꦫ (cara, “manner, way, custom, style, language”), from Old Javanese cara, cāra, ācāra (“behaviour, conduct”), from Sanskrit आचार (ācāra, “behaviour, good conduct; usage; custom; rule”), from Sanskrit चर् (car, “to move, to practice”). Doublet of acara, acaram, and ajar.
• Alternatively, from Persian چاره‎ (čâra, “remedy; help; business; scheme; means, manner, mode”).

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

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

• acara (archaic)
• tjara (pre-1967)

• “cara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• caraid (Cois Fharraige)

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).

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɾˠə/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾˠə/

cara m (genitive singular carad, nominative plural cairde)

1. friend

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “cara”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 117
• Entries containing “cara” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “cara” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 20

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

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

cara f (plural care)

1. female equivalent of caro

• -arca, Arca, arac, arca

Inflected form of cārus (“beloved”).

cāra

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

cārā

1. ablative feminine singular of cārus

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).

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

cara f (genitive carae); first declension

1. (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

First-declension noun.

• “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

cara m

1. genitive singular form of cars

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”).

• Rhymes: -a

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

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

• “cara” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• carait

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarə/

cara

1. friend

   coscc carat ― a friend's advice

2. relative

• caratrad (“friendship, alliance”)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

cara f

1. Alternative spelling of kara

cara m

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

• → Thai: จร (jɔɔn, “to wander”)

cara

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sa.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ca‧ra

cara m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of car

• Rhymes: -aɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra

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

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.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cara.

cara m (plural caras)

1. (Brazil, colloquial) man, fellow, guy and any adult male

   Synonyms: bicho, camarada, cabra, tipo

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cara.

From Latin cāra.

cara

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:caro.

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

cara f (plural caras)

1. face

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾa/ [ˈka.ɾa]

• Audio (Latin America)

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• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧ra

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

• “cara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

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

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkara/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːra/, /ˈkara/

cara

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