caure

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan caure, from Latin cadere, from Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (to fall). Old Catalan also had a variant caér, from a Late Latin variant cadēre.

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Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) to fall (to come down, to drop, to descend)
    • 2019 October 12, “Rècord històric en una marató: Kipchoge destrossa el mur de les dues hores”, in Diari de Girona[1]:
      El kenyà Eliud Kipchoge, rècord mundial de marató, va fer caure aquest dissabte a Viena el llegendari mur de les dues hores sobre la distància amb un temps de 1h59: 40, una marca que no obstant això no serà oficial per les ajudes externes que va rebre.
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  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)

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Latin

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Noun

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caure

  1. vocative singular of caurus

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English care, from Old English caru, from Proto-West Germanic *karu.

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Noun

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caure

  1. care
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References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 29