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English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin cariēs.
Pronunciation
Noun
caries (countable and uncountable, plural caries)
- The progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
- Armenian: ոսկրափտություն (oskrapʻtutʻyun), կարիես (hy) (karies)
- Bulgarian: ка́риес m (káries)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 齲齒／龋齿 (zh) (qǔchǐ), 蛀牙 (zh) (zhùyá), 蟲牙／虫牙 (zh) (chóngyá)
- Czech: kaz (cs) m, zubní kaz m
- Danish: karies c, caries c
- Dutch: cariës (nl) f, tandbederf (nl) n, (informal) gaatjes (nl) pl
- Estonian: kaaries
- Finnish: karies (fi), hammasmätä (fi)
- French: carie (fr) f
- Galician: carie (gl) f
- German: Karies (de) f
- Greek: τερηδόνα (el) f (teridóna)
- Hebrew: עַשֶּׁשֶׁת (he) f ('ashéshet)
- Hungarian: fogszuvasodás (hu)
- Japanese: 齲蝕 (ja) (うしょく, ushoku), う蝕 (うしょく, ushoku), カリエス (ja) (kariesu), 虫歯 (ja) (むしば, mushiba)
- Korean: 충치(蟲齒) (chungchi), 카리에스 (karieseu)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: karies (no) m
- Nynorsk: karies m
- Polish: próchnica (pl) f
- Portuguese: cárie (pt) f
- Russian: ка́риес (ru) m (kárijes), ка́риес зубо́в m (kárijes zubóv)
- Spanish: caries (es) f
- Swedish: karies (sv) c
- Tagalog: karyes
- Thai: ฟันผุ
- Ukrainian: ка́рієс (uk) m (kárijes), каріо́з m (karióz)
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Etymology 2
Verb
caries
- third-person singular simple present indicative of cary
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
caries f
- plural of carie
Verb
caries
- second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of carier
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From careō (“to lack”) + -iēs.
Pronunciation
Noun
cariēs f (genitive cariēī); fifth declension
- decay, rot, rottenness, corruption
Declension
Fifth-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
References
- “caries”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caries in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 93
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin caries.
Pronunciation
Noun
caries f (plural caries)
- (dentistry) caries, cavity
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