# caro
## Aragonese
### Alternative forms

* car (Belsetán)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cārus (“dear; expensive”).

### Adjective

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)
* (Somontano) expensive

#### Derived terms

* carero (“expensive”)

### References

* “caro”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “caro”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Asturian
### Adjective

caro
* neuter of caru

## Catalan
### Etymology

Contraction of Old Catalan càreu, from Latin carabus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈka.ɾu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈka.ɾo]

### Noun

caro m (plural caros)
* rowboat
* rabbitfish
    Synonyms: quimera, ullverd

### Further reading

* “caro” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “caro”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “caro” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “caro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Russian царь (carʹ), ultimately from Latin Caesar. Compare Polish car, Yiddish צאַר (tsar). Doublet of Cezaro.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡saro]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aro
* Hyphenation: ca‧ro

### Noun

caro (accusative singular caron, plural caroj, accusative plural carojn)
* (historical) tsar, czar
    Coordinate term: carino

#### Hypernyms

* imperiestro (“emperor”)
* monarko, monarĥo (“monarch”)

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese caro (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cārus (“dear; expensive”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkɑɾʊ]
* Rhymes: -aɾʊ, -aɾo
* Hyphenation: ca‧ro

### Adjective

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)
* expensive; costly
    Antonym: barato
    O barato adoito sai caro (proverb) ― Cheap frequently results expensive
* (literary) dear

#### Derived terms

* careiro (“rather expensive”)

### References

* “caro”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “caro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “caro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “caro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “caro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Ido
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡saro/

### Noun

caro (plural cari)
* (historical) czar, tsar (no specific gender)

#### Derived terms

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

## Istriot
### Etymology

From Latin cārus.

### Noun

caro
* 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.

#### Related terms

* carisa

## Italian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cārus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.ro/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aro
* Hyphenation: cà‧ro

### Adjective

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural cari, feminine plural care, superlative carissimo)
* dear (beloved, or in the salutation of a letter), sweetheart
* dear, precious, expensive

#### Derived terms

* caramente
* carezza
* carino
* carissimo

### Noun

caro m (plural cari, feminine cara)
* dear (darling)

### Further reading

* caro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* acro, acro-, arco, arcò, ocra, orca, roca

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* charō (Medieval Latin)

### Pronunciation

* carō: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈka.roː/, [ˈkäroː]
* carō: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.ro/, [ˈkäːro]
* cārō: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkaː.roː/, [ˈkäːroː]
* cārō: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.ro/, [ˈkäːro]

### Etymology 1

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 (“to separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.

#### Noun

carō f (genitive carnis); third declension
* (literally) flesh, meat of an animal
    Carne opus est, sī satur esse velīs. ― It is meat that you need, if you want to be sated.
** flesh of the human body, as the seat of the passions
* (metonymically) pulp of a fruit
* (metonymically) soft part of a precious stone
* (figurative) richness of discourse

##### Inflection

Third-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* carnālis
* carnārium
* carnārius
* carnātiō
* carnātus
* carneus
* *carnicea
* carnicula
* carnifex
* carniger
* carnisūmus
* carnivorus
* carnōsus
* carnulentus
* *carnūtus
* concarnō
* dēcarnō
* incarnō

##### Related terms

* carnālia
* carnālitās
* carnāliter
* carnificātor
* carnificātus
* carnificīna
* carnificius
* carnificō
* carnivorax
* carnōsitās

##### Descendants

* Aromanian: carni, carne, carrã, carre
* Asturian: carne
* Dalmatian: cuarne
* Franco-Provençal: chèrn
* Friulian: cjâr, cjar
* Italian: carne
* Middle French: carnage
** → English: carnage
** French: carnage
* Old French: char, charn, caroigne
** English: carrion
** Gallo: char
** Middle French: chair, char, charogne
*** French: chair, charogne
*** → Norman: chair
** Norman: carogne
** Walloon: tchå
* Italian: carogna
** Spanish: carroña
* Old Occitan: carn, charn
** Catalan: carn
** Occitan: carn
* Old Galician-Portuguese: carne, acaron
** Galician: carne, a carón
** Portuguese: carne
* Piedmontese: carn
* Romanian: carne
* Romansch: charn, tgarn
* Sardinian: carre (Logudorese, Nuorese), carri (Campidanese, Gallurese, Sassarese)
* Sicilian: carni
* Spanish: carne
* Venetan: carne

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

carō m
* dative/ablative singular of caros

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

cārō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of cārus

### References

* “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀘𑀭𑁄 (Brahmi script)
* चरो (Devanagari script)
* চরো (Bengali script)
* චරො (Sinhalese script)
* စရော or ၸရေႃ (Burmese script)
* จโร or จะโร (Thai script)
* ᨧᩁᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
* ຈໂຣ or ຈະໂຣ (Lao script)
* ចរោ (Khmer script)
* 𑄌𑄢𑄮 (Chakma script)

### Noun

caro
* nominative singular masculine of cara (“walker; frequenting”)

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese caro, from Latin cārus (“dear, beloved”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.ɾu/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾu
* Hyphenation: ca‧ro

### Adjective

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras, comparable, comparative mais caro, superlative o mais caro or caríssimo)
* greatly valued; dear; loved; lovable
* of high price; expensive

### Further reading

* “caro” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French carreau.

### Noun

caro n (uncountable)
* (card games) diamonds (card suit)

#### Declension
## Somali
### Noun

caro ?
* earth

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cārus, cognate with French cher. From the same Latin root as the English verbs caress and cherish.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaɾo/ [ˈka.ɾo]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɾo
* Syllabification: ca‧ro

### Adjective

caro (feminine cara, masculine plural caros, feminine plural caras)
* dear (loved)
    Synonym: querido
* expensive
    Synonym: costoso
    Antonyms: barato, económico

#### Derived terms

* carísimo
* lo barato sale caro
* salir más caro que un hijo tonto

#### Related terms

* carero
* carestía
* careza
* caricia
* cariño
* encarecer
* encarecimiento

### Adverb

caro
* costly
    Synonym: costosamente
** 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...

#### Further reading

* “caro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Venetan
### Etymology 1

From Latin carrus.

#### Noun

caro m (plural cari)
* wagon, cart, lorry, truck

### Etymology 2

From Latin cārus.

#### Adjective

caro (feminine singular cara, masculine plural cari, feminine plural care)
* dear (all senses)

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈkarɔ/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈkaːrɔ/, /ˈkarɔ/

### Verb

caro
* (literary) third-person singular present subjunctive of caru

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.