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See also: Cara, čara, čára, căra, carā, cará, and cà rá

Aragonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cara f (plural caras)

  1. (anatomy) face

References

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾa/, [ˈka.ɾa]

Noun

cara f (plural cares)

  1. (anatomy) face
    Synonym: rostru

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

Noun

cara f (plural cares)

  1. face (front part of the head)
  2. face (public image)
  3. heads (side of a coin)
  4. face, surface
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

cara f sg

  1. feminine singular of car

Further reading

Crimean Tatar

Noun

cara

  1. wound

Declension

Declension of cara
nominative cara
genitive caranıñ
dative carağa
accusative caranı
locative carada
ablative caradan

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

Verb

cara

  1. third-person singular past historic of carer

Galician

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese cara, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

Noun

cara f (plural caras)

  1. face (of a person or animal)
    Synonym: rostro
  2. expression; gesture
    • 2016, Malandrómeda, Encontro con !@#$%!! [song]:
      Os anos que botei soñando con este momento
      Funche compoñendo un discurso co tempo.
      Na cabeza creaba imaxes claras
      Dos teus ollos, escoitándome, e das túas caras
      The years I passed dreaming with this moment
      I composed a discourse along the time.
      Inside my head I was making a clear image
      of your eyes, while you was listening to me, and of your gestures
    Synonyms: aceno, xesto
  3. surface (face of a polyhedron)

Preposition

cara

  1. to
    Synonym: para

Etymology 2

Adjective

cara

  1. feminine singular of caro

Further reading

References

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay cara, from Classical Malay cara

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃa.ra/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ra

Noun

cara (first-person possessive caraku, second-person possessive caramu, third-person possessive caranya)

  1. way
  2. manner
  3. style
    Synonyms: corak, gaya
  4. effort
    Synonyms: ikhtiar, usaha

Further reading

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cara (“friend, relation”) (compare Scottish Gaelic caraid, Manx carrey), from Old Irish carae (“friend, relation”), from Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear”) (compare Latin cārus, English charity, whore).

Pronunciation

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Noun

cara m (genitive singular carad, nominative plural cairde)

  1. friend

Declension

Declension of cara (fifth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cara cairde
vocative a chara a chairde
genitive carad cairde
dative cara
caraid (archaic, dialectal) 		cairde
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cara na cairde
genitive an charad na gcairde
dative leis an gcara
leis an gcaraid (archaic, dialectal)
don chara
don charaid (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na cairde
  • Alternative genitive plural: carad (in certain phrases, otherwise archaic)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cara
radical lenition eclipsis
cara chara gcara

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

Further reading

Italian

Adjective

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  1. feminine singular of caro

Noun

cara f (plural care)

  1. female equivalent of caro

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology 1

Inflected form of cārus (“beloved”).

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) cāra

  1. inflection of cārus:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) cārā

  1. ablative feminine singular of cārus

Etymology 2

Apparently borrowed from Ancient Greek κάρᾱ (kárā, “head, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n-, from the root *ḱerh₂- (“top, head, horn”). Cognate to Latin cornū, corvus, crabrō, cerebrum and cernuus.

Attested tenuously in a single late Latin glossary, where it is given as Greek, and then in medieval Latin documents from Spain. Appears in Romance languages with the meaning “face, facial features” (corresponding to Latin vultus).

Noun

cara f (genitive carae); first declension

  2. (Late Latin, hapax, glosses, Medieval Latin, uncertain) the head
    Synonym: caput
    Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum, 4 587.8, (etymologising on Virgil's Georgics III, 269):
    'Gargara' quasi cara, caros, idest 'caput, capitis'
    Antidotarium Bambergense, 19 :
    dente […] dolentibus et carā satis antidotī adpositum prōdest
Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cara carae
genitive carae carārum
dative carae carīs
accusative caram carās
ablative carā carīs
vocative cara carae

Descendants

  • Padanian:
    • Old Ligurian: cera
      • → Gallurese: cera
      • Ligurian: cêa
      • → Sassarese: cera
    • Piedmontese: cera
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
See also

Further reading

  • “cara” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
  • “cara”, in Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, digitalized in Wörterbuchnetz des Trier Center for Digital Humanities, Version 01/21, 2021 June 2 (last accessed)
  • cara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Latvian

Noun

cara m

  1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular form of cars

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit आचार (ācāra, “behaviour, good conduct; usage; custom; rule”), from Sanskrit चर् (car, “to move, to practice”)

Alternatively, from Persian چاره (čâra, “remedy; help; business; scheme; means, manner, mode”).

Noun

cara (Jawi spelling چارا, plural cara-cara, informal 1st possessive caraku, 2nd possessive caramu, 3rd possessive caranya)

  1. manner, means, method
  2. style, fashion

Further reading

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish carae, from Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear”) (compare Latin cārus, English charity, whore).

Pronunciation

Noun

cara

  1. friend
    coscc carat ― a friend's advice
  2. relative

Declension

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cara, carait carait, cairde
Vocative cara, carait cairde
Accusative carait cairdiu, cairde
Genitive carat carat, cairde
Dative carait cairdib

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Mutation of cara
radical lenition nasalization
cara chara cara
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

Old Saxon

Noun

cara f

  1. Alternative spelling of kara

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Noun

cara m

  1. act of walking about, act of frequenting
  2. one who walks about, one who frequents
  3. messenger, spy

Declension

Declension table of "cara" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)carocarā
Accusative (second)caraṃcare
Instrumental (third)carenacarehi or carebhi
Dative (fourth)carassa or carāya or caratthaṃcarānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)carasmā or caramhā or carācarehi or carebhi
Genitive (sixth)carassacarānaṃ
Locative (seventh)carasmiṃ or caramhi or carecaresu
Vocative (calling)caracarā

Descendants

  • → Thai: จร (jɔɔn, “to wander”)

Verb

cara

  1. second-person singular imperative active of carati (“to walk”)

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “cara”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Polish

Pronunciation

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Noun

cara m pers

  1. genitive/accusative singular of car

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ca‧ra
  • Rhymes: -aɾɐ

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese cara, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrh₂esn.

Noun

cara f (plural s)

  1. face
    Synonyms: face, rosto
  2. heads (side of coin)
    cara ou coroa ― head or tails
    Synonym: anverso
    Antonym: coroa
  3. (informal) resemblance, appearance (perceived characteristic of a person, object or situation)
    Ele tem cara de idiota.
    He looks like an idiot.
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cara.

Derived terms

Noun

cara m (plural s)

  1. (Brazil, colloquial) man, fellow, guy and any adult male
    Synonyms: bicho, camarada, cabra, tipo
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cara.

Etymology 2

From Latin cāra.

Adjective

cara

  1. feminine singular of caro (“expensive, dear”)
Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:caro.

Sardinian

Etymology

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

Noun

cara f

  1. face
    Synonym: fatza, faghe, rostru

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaɾa/ [ˈka.ɾa]
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ra
  • Audio (Latin America):(file)

Etymology 1

From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”).

Noun

cara f (plural caras)

  1. (anatomy) face (the front part of the head)
    Synonyms: rostro, haz
  2. face (one's facial expression)
  3. face (the frontal aspect of something)
    Synonyms: frente, fachada
  4. (colloquial) gall, nerve (impudence)
  5. (geometry) face (any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron)
  6. side (of paper, a card, a coin)
  7. heads (side of a coin)
    Synonym: anverso
    Antonyms: cruz, (Argentina) ceca
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

cara

  1. feminine singular of caro

Further reading

Venetian

Adjective

cara f sg

  1. feminine singular of caro

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • câr (literary, third-person singular present/future)
  • caraf (first-person singular future)
  • cariff (colloquial, third-person singular future)
  • carith (colloquial, third-person singular future)

Pronunciation

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Verb

cara

  1. inflection of caru:
    1. (colloquial) first-person singular future
    2. (literary) third-person singular present indicative/future
    3. second-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutated forms of cara
radical soft nasal aspirate
cara gara nghara chara

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

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