caure

From Old Catalan, from Old Occitan (compare the attested forms cazer, chazer, in which the stress was instead on the final syllable, as with the Old Catalan form caér), from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cadō, from Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”). Compare Occitan caire, càser. The modern Catalan and Occitan words may have underwent a conjugation shift in which the stress moved to the first syllable or perhaps derived from unattested variant forms in their ancestral languages, corresponding to the original Latin third conjugation type (the attested Old Catalan and Old Occitan forms instead correspond to the Latin second conjugation, in this case the Vulgar Latin form *cadēre, which was the source of almost all other Romance cognates). Catalan and Occitan typically merged many second conjugation type Latin verbs (stressed -ēre) into the third conjugation type (unstressed -ere), so it is not unusual.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.ɾe/
• Rhymes: -awɾe

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

1. (intransitive) to fall (to come down, to drop, to descend)
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)

As creure, but with the stem cai- also in 1st person singular present indicative (caic), past participle (caigut), preterite and subjunctive. The stem is que- in the imperfect.

• caient
• caiguda
• escaure

• “caure” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “caure” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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