caure

Inherited from Old Catalan caure, from Latin cadere, from Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”). Old Catalan also had a variant caér, from a Late Latin variant cadēre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

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• Rhymes: -awɾe

caure (first-person singular present caic, first-person singular preterite caiguí, past participle caigut)

1. (intransitive) to fall (to come down, to drop, to descend)
   • 2019 October 12, “Rècord històric en una marató: Kipchoge destrossa el mur de les dues hores”, in Diari de Girona‎:

     El kenyà Eliud Kipchoge, rècord mundial de marató, va fer caure aquest dissabte a Viena el llegendari mur de les dues hores sobre la distància amb un temps de 1h59: 40, una marca que no obstant això no serà oficial per les ajudes externes que va rebre.

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2. (intransitive) to fall (to move to a lower position due to gravity)
3. to fall (upon) (to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance)
4. (with a) to fall into (to go into something by falling)
5. (intransitive) to fall into (to enter a negative state)
6. (intransitive) to fall into, to fall for; to be ensnared by

   caure en temptació

   to fall into temptation

7. (intransitive) to fall down, to collapse (to fall to the ground)
8. (intransitive) to fall (to become)

   caure malalt

   to fall ill

9. (intransitive) to fall, to collapse (to be overthrown or defeated)
10. (intransitive) to be granted or awarded
11. (intransitive) to fall on (to occur on a particular day)

• “caure” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “caure”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “caure” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “caure” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

caure

1. vocative singular of caurus

• caare, caar

From Middle English care, from Old English caru, from Proto-West Germanic *karu.

• IPA^(key): /kɔː/
• Homophones: car, core

caure

1. care

• caars

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 29