different between beware vs becare

English

Etymology

From Middle English bewar, be war, be ware, forms of Middle English ben ware (“to be on one's guard, be vigilant”, literally “be ware”), equivalent to be +? ware or be +? aware.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?w???/, IPA^(key): /?b??w???/ IPA^(key): /?b??w???/

  Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

beware

1. (defective, transitive, intransitive) To use caution, pay attention to (used both with and without of).
   • Beware the Ides of March.

Usage notes

The verb was traditionally used without of (e.g. "beware the ides of March", from Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2, 15–19, by Shakespeare), but it is often used with the preposition today.

The verb beware has become a defective verb and now lacks forms such as the third-person singular simple present bewares and the simple past bewared. It can only be used imperatively (Beware of the dog!), subjunctively (It's important that he beware of the dog), or as an infinitive (You must beware of the dog or They told me to beware of the dog).

The inflected forms bewares, bewared, and bewaring are called obsolete in Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, along with the simple indicative "I beware". The forms bewares and bewared are very rarely found in modern texts, though bewaring is slightly less rare. These inflections are more likely to be found in very old texts.

The meanings of the obsolete inflected forms can be easily understood by replacing "beware" with the more modern equivalent consisting of a conjugated form of "be" and the word "wary". For example "bewares" means the same as "is wary", "bewared" the same as "was wary", etc.

Translations

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

beware

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of bewaren

English

Etymology

From Middle English bicaren. Equivalent to be- +? care.

Verb

becare (third-person singular simple present becares, present participle becaring, simple past and past participle becared)

1. (transitive) To care about; care for; provide or administer care to; take care of.
   • 1968, Bruno Bettelheim, Love is not enough:

     Counselors becare you. They give you clothes and candy. Joan becares me, Marilyn loves me. My parents don't becare me, they're not counselors."

   • 1971, Benjamin B. Wolman, Manual of child psychopathology:

     Some little patients in the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, in comparing their counselors with their parents, stated that parents love, but counselors "becare."

   • 2006, John E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot, Bruce F. Benz, Histories of Maize:

     As is well known, before mechanized agriculture, maize plants, like all New World crops, such as squash or beans, had to be individually hand-planted, becared, consciously selected, and harvested, with Old World type mass sowing, [...]

Anagrams

• Bearce, cabree, cabrée

Spanish

Verb

becare

1. First-person singular (yo) future subjunctive form of becar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) future subjunctive form of becar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) future subjunctive form of becar.