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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *keh₂-ro-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈka.reː], [ˈkaː.rɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkaː.re], [ˈkaː.re]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''cārē''' (comparative ''cārius'', superlative ''cārissimē'')^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|cārus|-ē|t1=dear]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|cārus]] to [[itc-pro|*kāro-|t=dear]] and [[ine-pro|*keh₂-ro-|t=desired, desirable]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[xfa|karai|t=dear]], [[lv|kãrs|t=lustful]] and [[sga|carae|t=friend]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cato,^(Köbler 2010) who has buying horses at a higher price than cooks, ''equos carius quam coquos emere''.^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its proper sense is “at a high price”, of buying and selling: Varro has buying dear and being sold dear, and Lucilius things that cost more.^(Georges 1913) It also means “at a high value”: Plancus writes to Cicero that his merits were rated too highly out of affection.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Figuratively it is “at a great cost or sacrifice”, as in the elder Seneca.^(OLD 2012) British medieval texts keep “dearly, at a high price”, and also use it for “earnestly, warmly” in letters of request.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of buying horses dear.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of buying and selling.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1294 – In a Gascon letter, “as earnestly as we can”.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # At a high [[m|en|price]], [[m|en|dear]], dearly.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Wiktionary)

+ # At a high value.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(figurative)'' At a great cost or [[m|en|sacrifice]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Earnestly, warmly.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cārus]]

+ * [[cāritās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}