caure

Etymology

From Old Catalan, from Old Occitan (compare the attested forms cazer, chazer, in which the stress was instead on the final syllable, as with the Old Catalan form caér), from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cadō, from Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (“to fall”). Compare Occitan caire, càser. 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.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaw.ɾe/
• Rhymes: -awɾe

Verb

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

1. to fall
2. to take down

References

• “caure” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• Institut d’Estudis Catalans (1995). Diccionari de la llengua catalana (4th edition). →ISBN.

Noun

caure

1. vocative singular of caurus