From Old Galician-Portuguese caro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cārus (“dear; expensive”).
caro (feminine cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)
- expensive; costly
- Antonym: barato
- O barato adoito sai caro (proverb) ― Cheap frequently results expensive
- (literary) dear
- “caro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
- Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “caro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- “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.
caro (plural cari)
- (historical) czar, tsar (no specific gender)
- carala (“relating to the czar, tsar”)
- carido (“czarevitch, tsarevich”)
- carino (“czarina, tsarina”)
- carulo (“a male czar, tsar”)
From Latin cārus.
caro
- 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.
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.
Carnes bubulae.
carō f (genitive carnis); third declension
- (literally) flesh, meat of an animal
- Carne opus est, sī satur esse velīs. ― It is meat that you need, if you want to be sated.
- flesh of the human body, as the seat of the passions
- (metonymically) pulp of a fruit
- (metonymically) soft part of a precious stone
- (figurative) richness of discourse
Third-declension noun.
Descendants of caro in other languages
- Aromanian: carni, carne, carrã, carre
- Asturian: carne
- Dalmatian: cuarne
- Franco-Provençal: chèrn
- Friulian: cjâr, cjar
- Italian: carne
- Middle French: carnage
- Old French: char, charn, caroigne
- Italian: carogna
- Old Occitan: carn, charn
- Old Galician-Portuguese: carne, acaron
- Piedmontese: carn
- Romanian: carne
- Romansch: charn, tgarn
- Sardinian: carre (Logudorese, Nuorese), carri (Campidanese, Gallurese, Sassarese)
- Sicilian: carni
- Spanish: carne
- Venetian: carne
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
carō m
- dative/ablative singular of caros
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
cārō
- 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
Inherited from Latin cārus, cognate with French cher. From the same Latin root as the English verbs caress and cherish.
- IPA(key): /ˈkaɾo/ [ˈka.ɾo]
- Rhymes: -aɾo
- Syllabification: ca‧ro
caro (feminine cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)
- dear (loved)
- Synonym: querido
- expensive
- Synonym: costoso
- Antonyms: barato, económico
caro
- costly
- Synonym: costosamente
2009 June 4, Gerardo Lissardy, “Europa vota, con escepticismo y enfado”, in BBC Mundo[2]: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...