[ˈka.re.oː], [ˈkaː.re.o]
OrigoFrom 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”).
- conjugation-2to lack, be without. (usually with ablative), to be deprived of
“Cupidīs enim rērum tālium, odiōsum fortasse et molestum est carēre; satiātis vērō et explētis iūcundius est carēre quam fruī.” — For to those who still lust after such things, it is perhaps hateful and annoying to be without them; [but] for those who are already satisfied and filled, it is actually more pleasant to lack them th
“Usque eo ut complures dies frumento milites caruerint” — to the degree that the soldiers were without corn
“… nec pulchrō ut Latiō careat rēgnumque relinquat ….” — “… nor that he would lose fair Latium and be deprived of his realm ….”
- conjugation-2to be separated from
Formaecareō(canonical) · carēre(infinitive, present) · caruī(active, perfect) · caritum(supine) · careō(active, first-person, indicative, present, singular) · carēs(active, indicative, present, second-person, singular) · caret(active, indicative, present, singular, third-person) · carēmus(active, first-person, indicative, plural, present) · carētis(active, indicative, plural, present, second-person) · carent(active, indicative, plural, present, third-person) · carēbam(active, first-person, imperfect, indicative, singular) · carēbās(active, imperfect, indicative, second-person, singular) · carēbat(active, imperfect, indicative, singular, third-person) · carēbāmus(active, first-person, imperfect, indicative, plural) · carēbātis(active, imperfect, indicative, plural, second-person) · carēbant(active, imperfect, indicative, plural, third-person) · carēbō(active, first-person, future, indicative, singular) · carēbis(active, future, indicative, second-person, singular) · carēbit(active, future, indicative, singular, third-person) · carēbimus(active, first-person, future, indicative, plural)
Fons: Vicitionarium