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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈkɛə.ɹi.əs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈkɛɚ.i.əs/ [General-American] (note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger), /ˈkæɹ.i.əs/ [General-American] (note: among careful speakers), /ˈkɛɹ.i.əs/ (note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-carious.wav Forms: more carious [comparative], most carious [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəs Etymology: From French carieux (“carious”), from carie (“decay (of bone or teeth)”) (from Latin cariēs (“rot, rottenness, corruption”), from careō (“to lack, be deprived of”), from Proto-Italic *kazēō (“to lack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”).) + French -eux (“-ous”) (from Latin -ōsus (“suffix forming adjectives, meaning ‘full of, prone to’”), from Old Latin -ōsos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-went-, *-wont- + *-to-)). Etymology templates: {{circa2|1890–1910|short=yes}} c. 1890–1910, {{der|en|fr|carieux||carious}} French carieux (“carious”), {{der|en|la|cariēs||rot, rottenness, corruption}} Latin cariēs (“rot, rottenness, corruption”), {{der|en|itc-pro|*kazēō||to lack}} Proto-Italic *kazēō (“to lack”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*ḱes-||to cut}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”), {{der|en|fr|-eux||-ous}} French -eux (“-ous”), {{der|en|la|-ōsus||suffix forming adjectives, meaning ‘full of, prone to’}} Latin -ōsus (“suffix forming adjectives, meaning ‘full of, prone to’”), {{der|en|itc-ola|-ōsos}} Old Latin -ōsos, {{der|en|ine-pro|*-went-}} Proto-Indo-European *-went- Head templates: {{en-adj}} carious (comparative more carious, superlative most carious)
  1. Having caries (bone or tooth decay); decayed, rotten. Wikipedia link: Friern Hospital, Wellcome Library Categories (topical): Dentistry Derived forms: anticarious, cariousness, noncarious, precarious Related terms: caries, dental caries Translations (having caries (bone or tooth decay)): кариозен (kariozen) (Bulgarian), karioottinen (Finnish), reikäinen (Finnish), carieux [masculine] (French), cariado (Portuguese), карио́зный (karióznyj) (Russian)
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          "text": "[I]f no Acid be contain’d in the Blood how comes it, I beſeech you, that in Carious or Virulent Ulcers, the Silver Probe becomes inſtantly of a Livid Colour, which can only be effected by an Acid not an Alkalous Menſtruum?",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.