caries

caries

See also: cariés, caríes, cáries, and cariës

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caries.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛə.ɹiːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ɹiz/
• (with Mary–marry–merry merger and happy tensing) Homophones: carries, karris
• Hyphenation: car‧ies

Noun

caries (countable and uncountable, plural caries)

1. The progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay

Synonyms

• cavity

Derived terms

• dental caries

Translations

progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay

Armenian: ոսկրափտություն (oskrapʿtutʿyun), կարիես (hy) (karies) Chinese: Mandarin: 齲齒／龋齿 (zh) (qǔchǐ), 蛀牙 (zh) (zhùyá), 蟲牙／虫牙 (zh) (chóngyá) Czech: kaz (cs) m, zubní kaz m Danish: karies c, caries c Dutch: cariës (nl) f, tandbederf (nl) n, (informal) gaatjes (nl) pl Estonian: kaaries Finnish: karies (fi), hammasmätä (fi) French: carie (fr) f Galician: carie (gl) f German: Karies (de) f Greek: τερηδόνα (el) f (teridóna) Hebrew: עַשֶּׁשֶׁת‎ (he) f ('ashéshet) Hungarian: fogszuvasodás (hu) Japanese: 齲蝕 (うしょく, ushoku), う蝕 (うしょく, ushoku), カリエス (ja) (kariesu), 虫歯 (ja) (むしば, mushiba) Korean: 충치(蟲齒) (chungchi), 카리에스 (karieseu) Norwegian: Bokmål: karies (no) m Nynorsk: karies m Polish: próchnica (pl) f Portuguese: cárie (pt) f Russian: ка́риес (ru) m (kárijes), ка́риес зубо́в m (kárijes zubóv) Spanish: caries (es) f Swedish: karies (sv) c Tagalog: karyes Ukrainian: ка́рієс (uk) m (kárijes), каріо́з m (karióz)

Anagrams

• Serica, ericas

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Pronunciation

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Noun

caries f

1. plural of carie

Verb

caries

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of carier

Anagrams

• aciers
• casier
• craies
• créais
• écrias
• sciera

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Latin

Etymology

From careō (“to lack”) +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri.eːs/, [ˈkärieːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri.es/, [ˈkäːries]

Noun

cariēs f (genitive cariēī); fifth declension

1. decay, rot, rottenness, corruption

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cariēs	cariēs
Genitive	cariēī	cariērum
Dative	cariēī	cariēbus
Accusative	cariem	cariēs
Ablative	cariē	cariēbus
Vocative	cariēs	cariēs

Derived terms

• cariōsus

Descendants

• Albanian: qere
• Catalan: quera, → càries
• → English: caries
• French: carie
• Italian: carie
• Portuguese: cárie
• Romanian: car, carie
• Sicilian: cari
• Spanish: caries, quera

See also

• carius

References

• “caries”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caries in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 93

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin caries.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾjes/ [ˈka.ɾjes]
• Rhymes: -aɾjes
• Syllabification: ca‧ries

Noun

caries f (plural caries)

1. (dentistry) caries, cavity

Derived terms

• anticaries

Further reading

• “caries”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014