From Ancient Greek κάρος (káros, “deep sleep”) .
carus
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
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”).
cārus (feminine cāra, neuter cārum, comparative cārior, superlative cārissimus); first/second-declension adjective
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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 |
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