# careo
## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kazēō, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”).
De Vaan rejects the etymology from *ḱes-, finding it too semantically difficult to reconcile the stative ending -ēre, 'to lack, be lacking', and a stative Indo-European 'to be cutting something'. He mentions a 2000 paper by George Dunkel linking the derived castīgō to Sanskrit शास्ति (śāsti, “to teach, correct”), but rejects this too as other words in the word family seem to stem from 'be lacking, pure'.
Noteworthy is the same development in the Portuguese use of precisar (in passive meaning equivalent to carecer, from this careō), derived from preciso, from Latin praecīsus (“cut, shortened”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈka.re.oː/, [ˈkäreoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.re.o/, [ˈkäːreo]

### Verb

careō (present infinitive carēre, perfect active caruī, supine caritum); second conjugation
* to lack, be without. (usually with ablative), to be deprived of
    Synonyms: dēsum, egeō, indigeō, dēlinquō, deficiō, cessō, perdō
    Antonyms: flōreō, niteō, abundō, affluō
    Sī versūs hōrum duōrum poētārum neglegētis, magnā parte litterārum carēbitis.If you neglect the verses of these two poets, you will miss a great part of literature.
    Imperātor mīlitibus proeliō caruit.The general was without soldiers for the battle.
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.17:Usque eo ut complures dies frumento milites caruerintto the degree that the soldiers were without corn
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.432:“[...] nec pulchrō ut Latiō careat rēgnumque relinquat [...].”“[...] nor that he would lose fair Latium and be deprived of his realm [...].”
* to be separated from

#### Usage notes

* Always used with the ablative of separation.

#### Derived terms

* carians
* cariceus
* cariēs

#### Related terms

* cassus
* castrō
* castus

#### Descendants

* → English: caret, caritive
* → French: carence
* Galician: carecer
* → Ido: karear
* Italian: carenza
* Portuguese: carecer
* Spanish: carecer

### References

* “careo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “careo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* careo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. not to possess the sense of hearing: sensu audiendi carere to be deprived of the rites of burial: sepulturae honore carere to be deprived of the rites of burial: iustis exsequiarum carere the word carere means..: vox, nomen carendi or simply carere hoc significat (Tusc. 1. 36. 88) to be free from faults: omni vitio carere to never appear in public: publico carere, se abstinere to shun publicity: publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere to shun publicity: forensi luce carere to be in exile: patria carere to be free from blame: culpa carere, vacare
* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “careō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 92-93
* Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 586

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈɾeo/ [kaˈɾe.o]
* Rhymes: -eo
* Syllabification: ca‧re‧o

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from carear.

#### Noun

careo m (plural careos)
* face-to-face meeting

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

careo
* first-person singular present indicative of carear

### Further reading

* “careo”, 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