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Latin

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Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kaweros, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁w- (“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *sěverъ (“north”), Lithuanian šiaurė ("north"), German Schauer, and English shower.

Pronunciation

Noun

caurus m (genitive caurī); second declension

  1. northwestern wind

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative caurus caurī
genitive caurī caurōrum
dative caurō caurīs
accusative caurum caurōs
ablative caurō caurīs
vocative caure caurī

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Descendants

  • Italian: coro, Coro

Further reading

  • “caurus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • 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 100

Latvian

Adjective

caurus

  1. accusative masculine plural of caurs
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