cara

Inherited from Late Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára).

cara f (plural caras)

1. (anatomy) face

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cara”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾa/ [ˈka.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧ra

cara f (plural cares)

1. (anatomy) face

   Synonym: rostru

• “cara” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.ɾa]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾa

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

cara f (plural cares)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cara

1. feminine singular of car

• “cara”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

cara

1. wound

• carağa tuz basmaq (“rub salt in the wound”)
• carasın teşmek (“scratch one's wound”)

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁa/
• Homophones: caras, carât

cara

1. third-person singular past historic of carer

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾa/ [ˈkɑ.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra

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

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)

cara

1. to

   Synonym: para

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

• “cara”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cara”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cara”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cara”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cara”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cara”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• acara (archaic)
• tjara (1947–1972)

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

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ra, -a

From Malay cara, from Classical Malay cara.

• From Javanese ꦕꦫ (cara, “manner, way, custom, style, language”), from Old Javanese cara, cāra, ācāra (“behaviour, conduct”), from Sanskrit आचार (ācāra, “behaviour, good conduct; usage; custom; rule”), from Sanskrit चर् (car, “to move, to practice”). Doublet of acara, acaram, and ajar.
• Alternatively, from Persian چاره (čâra, “remedy; help; business; scheme; means, manner, mode”).

cara (plural cara-cara)

1. way
2. manner

Borrowed from Ambonese Malay [Term?]

cara (plural cara-cara)

1. (cooking) a typical Ambon snack, made from a mixture of wheat flour, eggs, milk, butter, salt, sugar and liquid coconut milk, which is put into a special mold with a filling of sliced ​​skipjack tuna and sauteed spices, topped with sliced ​​red chilies, then baked [from 21th c.]

Borrowed from Ternate [Term?]

cara (plural cara-cara)

1. (zoology) bridled parrotfish, sixband parrotfish, six-banded parrotfish, or vermiculate parrotfish (Scarus frenatus).

• “cara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• caraid (Connacht, Ulster)

From Middle Irish cara (“friend, relation”) (compare Scottish Gaelic caraid, Manx carrey), from Old Irish carae (“friend, relation”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *karants (“friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ros (“dear”) (compare Latin cārus, English charity, whore).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɾˠə/^[2][3][4], /ˈkaɾˠə/^[5][6]

cara m (genitive singular carad, nominative plural cairde)

1. friend

• Alternative genitive plural: carad (in certain phrases, otherwise archaic)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cara”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 117
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cara”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cara”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: cà‧ra

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

cara f (plural care)

1. female equivalent of caro

• -arca, Arca, arac, arca

cara

1. romanization of ꦕꦫ

Inflected form of cārus (“beloved”).

cāra

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

cārā

1. ablative feminine singular of cārus

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).

cara f (genitive carae); first declension

2. (Late Latin, rare, 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'

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • Antidotarium Bambergense, 19:

     dente […] dolentibus et carā satis antidotī adpositum prōdest

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun.

• “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, 2 June 2021 (last accessed)
• cara in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (1994) Koine und Diglossie (in German), Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 493

cara m

1. genitive singular of cars

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”).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.rə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara, -ra, -a

cara (Jawi spelling چارا, plural cara-cara)

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

• > Indonesian: cara (inherited)
• > Peranakan Indonesian: tjara (inherited)

• “cara” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• carait

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkarə/

cara

1. friend

   coscc carat ― a friend's advice

2. relative

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

• caratrad (“friendship, alliance”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.rɑ/

cara

1. singular imperative of carian

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃa.ra/
• Rhymes: -ra
• Homophone: cāra
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra

Borrowed from Sanskrit चर (cara, “wandering, walking, moving”).

cara

1. going
2. walking

• >? Javanese: ꦕꦺꦴꦫꦺꦴ (coro)

cara

1. alternative spelling of cara, cāra, ācāra
2. alternative spelling of cara, pacara, upacara, upacāra
3. alternative spelling of caraṇa

• "cara" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

cara f

1. alternative spelling of kara

cara m

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

• → Thai: จร (jɔɔn, “to wander”)

cara

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sa.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ca‧ra

cara m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of car

• Rhymes: -aɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ra

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

cara f (plural caras)

1. face

   Synonyms: face, rosto

2. heads (side of coin)

   Synonym: anverso

   Antonym: coroa

   cara ou coroa ― head or tails

3. (informal) resemblance, appearance (perceived characteristic of a person, object or situation)

   Synonym: pinta

   Ele tem cara de idiota. ― He looks like an idiot.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cara.

cara m (plural caras)

1. (Brazil, informal) man, fellow, guy and any adult male

   Synonyms: bicho, camarada, cabra, tipo

   • 2024 August 31, Jeniffer Gularte, Mariana Muniz, quoting Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, “Lula: Musk tem de respeitar decisão do STF”, in Diário do Pará, page B1:

     Esse país não é um país que tem uma sociedade com complexo de vira-lata, que o cara [Elon Musk] gritou e a gente fica com medo. Esse cara tem que aceitar as regras desse país.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

cara!

1. (Brazil, informal) man!; dude!

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cara.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cara

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

From Spanish cara and/or Catalan cara, both from Late Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρα (kára).

cara f (plural caras)

1. face

• Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “kára”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg

• IPA^(key): /ˈkara/

Likely from Spanish and/or Catalan cara, both from Late Latin cara, from Ancient Greek κάρᾱ (kárā), from Proto-Hellenic *kárahə, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱérh₂sō (“top of the head/skull”), derived from the root *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn, top”).

cara f (plural cari) (rare)

1. face

   Synonym: fàccia

   • 1957, Salvator Ruju, “Li candaréri [The candlesticks]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 144:

     Ma la più bèdda còsa, li baggiani
     di cara bruna, d’ócci risurani.

     But the most beautiful thing, [is] the brown-faced young girls with smiling eyes.

     (literally, “But the most beautiful thing, [are] the young girls of brown face, of smiling eyes.”)

2. countenance

   Synonyms: fàccia, chiza

Borrowed from Spanish cala, of unknown origin.

• cala (Sedini)

cara f (plural cari)

1. inlet, cove

• Ugo Solinas (2016) Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 1, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 318
• Giosue Muzzo (1981) Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 55
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾa/ [ˈka.ɾa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧ra

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

cara f (plural caras)

1. (anatomy) face (the front part of the head)

   Synonyms: rostro, haz

2. face (one's facial expression)

   Su cara lo decía todo.

   His face said everything.

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

• “cara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

cara

1. feminine singular of caro

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

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkara/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːra/, /ˈkara/

cara

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