caro

Inherited from Latin cārus (“dear; expensive”).

caro m sg (feminine singular cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)

1. expensive

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

caro

1. neuter of caru

From Russian царь (carʹ), of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz (“emperor of Rome”), ultimately from Latin Caesar. Compare Polish car, Yiddish צאַר‎ (tsar). Doublet of Cezaro.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡saro]
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• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: ca‧ro

caro (accusative singular caron, plural caroj, accusative plural carojn)

1. (historical) tsar, czar (emperor of Russia and other Slavic states between 1547 and 1917)

   Coordinate term: carino

• imperiestro (“emperor”)
• monarko, monarĥo (“monarch”)

From Old Galician-Portuguese caro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cārus (“dear; expensive”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑɾʊ]

caro m (feminine singular cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)

1. expensive; costly

   O barato adoito sai caro (proverb) ― Cheap frequently results expensive

   Antonym: barato

2. (literary) dear

• careiro (“rather expensive”)

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

Borrowed from Esperanto caro, English czar, French tsar, German Zar, Italian zar, Russian царь (carʹ), Spanish zar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡saro/

caro (plural cari)

1. (historical) czar, tsar (no specific gender)

From Latin cārus.

caro

1. dear; darling
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:

     Caro, cun quil visito bianco e russo.

     Dear, with that little white and red face.

• carisa

From Latin cārus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ro/

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• Rhymes: -aro
• Hyphenation: cà‧ro

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural cari, feminine plural care, superlative carissimo)

1. dear (beloved, or in the salutation of a letter), sweetheart
2. dear, precious, expensive

caro m (plural cari, feminine cara)

1. dear (darling)

• caro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• acro, acro-, arco, arcò, ocra, orca, roca

• charō (medieval)

• carō: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.roː/, [ˈkäroː]
• carō: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ro/, [ˈkäːro]
• cārō: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.roː/, [ˈkäːroː]
• cārō: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ro/, [ˈkäːro]

From Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-. Cognate with Dutch scheren, German scheren, Norwegian skjære, Swedish skära; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), English shear, Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“to separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.

Caro.

carō f (genitive carnis); third declension

1. (literally) flesh, meat of an animal; pulp of a fruit
   1. flesh of the human body, as the seat of the passions
2. (metonymically) soft part of a precious stone
3. (figurative) richness of discourse

Third-declension noun.

Compare Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō), German scheren, English shear. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

cārō (present infinitive cārere); third conjugation, no perfect or supine stem

1. (rare) I card (wool)

• carmen (“wool comb”)
• carminō

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

carō m

1. dative/ablative singular of caros

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cārō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cārus

• “caro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• caro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
    

caro

1. nominative singular masculine of cara (“walker; frequenting”)

From Old Galician-Portuguese caro, from Latin cārus (“dear, beloved”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros.

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• Rhymes: -aɾu
• Hyphenation: ca‧ro

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras, comparable, comparative mais caro, superlative o mais caro or caríssimo)

1. greatly valued; dear; loved; lovable
2. of high price; expensive

From French carreau.

caro n (uncountable)

1. (card games) diamonds (card suit)

caro ?

1. earth

From Latin cārus, cognate with French cher. From the same Latin root as the English verbs caress and cherish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾo/ [ˈka.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -aɾo
• Syllabification: ca‧ro

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)

1. dear (loved)

   Synonym: querido

2. expensive

   Synonym: costoso

   Antonyms: barato, económico

caro

1. costly
   • 2009 June 4, Gerardo Lissardy, “Europa vota, con escepticismo y enfado”, in BBC Mundo‎:

     Europa celebra elecciones legislativas a partir de este jueves marcada por problemas políticos y una crisis económica que podrían costarle caro a los partidos gobernantes...

     Europe celebrates legislative elections this Thursday marked by political problems and an economic crisis that could be costly for the ruling parties...

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

From Latin carrus.

caro m (plural cari)

1. wagon, cart, lorry, truck

From Latin cārus.

caro (feminine singular cara, masculine plural cari, feminine plural care)

1. dear (all senses)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkarɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːrɔ/, /ˈkarɔ/

caro

1. (literary) third-person singular present subjunctive of caru