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carato
cara
masc abl sg of cara (adj); masc abl sg of cara (noun); masc abl pl of cara (noun); masc dat sg of caranta (prp); …
- cara (adj): walking; going; roaming; living; lit. going around
- cara (masc): spy; lit. going around
- carato (prp): for one who walks; for a walking
- caranta (prp): walking; wandering around; roaming about
- caranta (prp): living; leading one's life
- carato (prp): when walking; when going; lit. of walking
Built from
- car — root · go, walk
Motion root found in Sanskrit carati and Latin currere. The concrete image is physical movement.
- a — ending · agent, quality
Nominal suffix forming cara as an agent noun ('one who goes') or adjective ('going'). Present in Sanskrit -a stem formatives.
- to — ending · ablative/dative singular
Inflectional ending marking either ablative singular ('from, by') or dative singular ('for, to') depending on syntactic context.
Etymology. √car 'to walk, go, move'; Sanskrit carati 'walks, moves'; root cognate with Latin currere 'to run', English 'car'. The sense 'moving' is primary; 'spy' (one who goes around) and 'way of life' derive from motion.