caro

caro m sg (feminine singular cara, neuter singular caro, masculine and neuter plural caros, feminine plural cares)

1. expensive

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “caro”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡saro/
• Hyphenation: ca‧ro
• Rhymes: -aro

caro (accusative singular caron, plural caroj, accusative plural carojn)

1. tsar, czar

• carino (“tsarina”)

Borrowed from Esperanto caro, English czar, French tsar, German Zar, Italian zar, Russian царь (carʹ), Spanish zar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡saro/

caro (plural cari)

1. (historical) czar, tsar (no specific gender)

• carulo (“a male czar, tsar”)
• carino (“czarina, tsarina”)
• carido (“czarevitch, tsarevich”)
• carala (“relating to the czar, tsar”)

From Latin cārus.

caro

1. dear; darling
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:

     Caro, cun quil visito bianco e russo.

     Dear, with that little white and red face.

• carisa

From Latin cārus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ro/

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• Rhymes: -aro

caro (feminine singular cara, masculine plural cari, feminine plural care)

1. dear (beloved, or in the salutation of a letter), sweetheart
2. dear, precious, expensive

• carino
• carissimo

• carezza

caro m (plural cari, feminine cara)

1. dear (darling)

• acro, arco, ocra, orca, roca

From Proto-Italic *karō, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-. Cognate with Dutch scheren, German scheren, Norwegian skjære, Swedish skära; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), English shear, Albanian harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.roː/

carō f (genitive carnis); third declension

1. flesh, meat
2. pulp of a fruit
3. body

Third declension.

Non-lemma forms

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.roː/

cārō

1. dative masculine singular of cārus
2. ablative masculine singular of cārus
3. dative neuter singular of cārus
4. ablative neuter singular of cārus

• caro in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caro in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caro in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• caro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live on meat, fish, by plunder: vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)
    

From Old Portuguese caro, from Latin cārus (“dear, beloved”), from Proto-Indo-European *kāro-.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ɾu/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧ro

caro m (feminine singular cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras, comparable)

1. greatly valued; dear; loved; lovable
2. of high price; expensive

From Latin cārus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾo/

caro (feminine singular cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)

1. dear (loved)

   Synonym: querido

2. expensive

   Synonym: costoso

   Antonyms: barato, económico

• carísimo

caro

1. costly
   • 2009 June 4, Gerardo Lissardy, “Europa vota, con escepticismo y enfado”, in BBC Mundo‎:

     Europa celebra elecciones legislativas a partir de este jueves marcada por problemas políticos y una crisis económica que podrían costarle caro a los partidos gobernantes...

     Europe celebrates legislative elections this Thursday marked by political problems and an economic crisis that could be costly for the ruling parties...

• “caro” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

caro m (plural cari)

1. wagon, cart, lorry, truck

caro m (feminine singular cara, masculine plural cari, feminine plural care)

1. dear (all senses)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkarɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːrɔ/, /ˈkarɔ/

caro

1. (literary) third-person singular present subjunctive of caru