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Latin
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
- northwestern wind
Declension
Second-declension noun.
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Further reading
- “caurus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Latvian
Adjective
caurus
- accusative plural masculine of caurs