careo

Meaning

1. (conjugation-2) to lack, be without. (usually with ablative), to be deprived of
2. (conjugation-2) to be separated from

Concepts

lack

miss

be away

be lacking

be missing

be without

want

be deprived of

diss

absent oneself from

feel the want of

be absent

Opposite of

flōreō, niteō, abundō, affluō

Synonyms

desidero

egeo

desum

quaero

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Translations

manquer

missen

mancare

entbehren

fehlen

carecer

ontberen

carecer

mangeln

faltar

yoksun olmak

derven

difettare

στερούμαι

trobar a faltar

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈka.re.oː]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kazēō, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”).
De Vaan rejects the etymology from *ḱes-, finding it too semantically difficult to reconcile the stative ending -ēre, 'to lack, be lacking', and a stative Indo-European 'to be cutting something'. He mentions a 2000 paper by George Dunkel linking the derived castīgō to Sanskrit शास्ति (śāsti, “to teach, correct”), but rejects this too as other words in the word family seem to stem from 'be lacking, pure'.
Noteworthy is the same development in the Portuguese use of precisar (in passive meaning equivalent to carecer, from this careō), derived from preciso, from Latin praecīsus (“cut, shortened”).