caire

See also: Caire

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin quādrum (“square”). Compare the borrowed doublet quadre, quadro.

Pronunciation

Noun

caire m (plural caires)

  1. corner of a polygon or polyhedron
  2. look, aspect, appearance
  3. (archaic) regular tetragon, square

Derived terms

Further reading

Occitan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin quādrum.

Noun

caire m (plural caires)

  1. corner
  2. side; edge
  • cairar

Etymology 2

From a variant form of the attested Old Occitan cazer (in which the stress was instead on the final syllable), from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cadō. Compare Catalan caure. The modern Catalan and Occitan words may have underwent a conjugation shift in which the stress moved to the first syllable or perhaps derived from unattested variant forms in their ancestral languages, corresponding to the original Latin third conjugation type (the attested Old Catalan and Old Occitan forms instead correspond to the Latin second conjugation, in this case the Vulgar Latin form *cadēre, which was the source of almost all other Romance cognates). Catalan and Occitan typically merged many second conjugation type Latin verbs (stressed -ēre) into the third conjugation type (unstressed -ere), so it is not unusual.

Alternative forms

Verb

caire

  1. to fall
Conjugation

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kariyā.

Compare Welsh caredd.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkarʲe/

Noun

caire f

  1. crime, fault, sin

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
caire chaire caire
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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