different between care vs influence

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??/
• (General American) enPR: kâr, IPA^(key): /k?(?)?/, /ke(?)?/, [ke(??)?], [k?(??)?]
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English care, from Old English caru, ?earu (“care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *kar? (“care, sorrow, cry”), from Proto-Indo-European *?eh?r- (“shout, call”). Cognate with Old Saxon cara, kara (“concern, action”), Middle High German kar (“sorrow, lamentation”), Icelandic kör (“sickbed”), Gothic ???????????????? (kara, “concern, care”). Related also to Dutch karig (“scanty”), German karg (“sparse, meagre, barren”), Latin garri?, Ancient Greek ????? (gêrus). See also chary.

Noun

care (countable and uncountable, plural cares)

1. (obsolete) Grief, sorrow. [13th–19th c.]
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, Scene ii^[1]:

     More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II Scene ii^[2]:

     Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 566:

     One day, among the days, he bethought him of this and fell lamenting for that the most part of his existence was past and he had not been vouchsafed a son, to inherit the kingdom after him, even as he had inherited it from his fathers and forebears; by reason whereof there betided him sore cark and care and chagrin exceeding.

2. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
3. Worry.
4. Maintenance, upkeep.

   • Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

5. The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
6. The state of being cared for by others.

7. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.

Derived terms

Related terms

• chary

Translations

Quotations

• 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie

  ‘Have a care, Buquet—ghosts like not to be seen or talked about!’

Etymology 2

From Middle English caren, carien, from Old English carian (“to sorrow, grieve, be troubled, be anxious, to care for, heed”), from Proto-West Germanic *kar?n (“to care”), from Proto-Germanic *kar?n? (“to care”).

Cognate with Middle High German karn (“to complain, lament, grieve, mourn”), Alemannic German karen, kären (“to groan, wheeze, give a death rattle”), Swedish kära (“to fall in love”), Icelandic kæra (“to care, like”), Gothic ???????????????????? (kar?n, “to be concerned”).

Verb

care (third-person singular simple present cares, present participle caring, simple past and past participle cared)

2. (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene i^[4]:

     […] What cares these roarers [i.e. thunder] for the name of king? […]
3. (intransitive, polite, formal) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards.

4. (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.

5. (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
   • 2006, Grace Toney Edwards, JoAnn Aust Asbury, Ricky L. Cox, A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region, Univ. of Tennessee Press (?ISBN), page 108:

     After introducing herself, the therapist then asked the patient if it would be all right to do the exercises which the doctor had ordered for her. The patient would response, "Well, I don't care to." For several days, the therapist immediately left the room and officially recorded that the patient had "refused" therapy. [...] It was not until months later that this therapist [...] discovered that she should have been interpreting "I don't care to" as "I don't mind" doing those exercises now.

Usage notes

• The sense "to want" is most commonly found as an interrogative or negative sentence, and may take a for clause (would you care for some tea?) or (as a catenative verb) takes a to infinitive (would you care to go with me?). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Acre, CERA, Cera, Crea, Race, acer, acre, e-car, race, race-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?/
• Homophones: car, carent, cares, carre, carrent, carre, quarre, quarres, quarrent, quart

Verb

care

1. inflection of carer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• acre, âcre, créa, race

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -are

Adjective

care

1. feminine plural of caro

Anagrams

• acre, cera, c'era, crea, reca

Latin

Pronunciation

• car?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.re?/, [?kä?e?]
• car?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.re/, [?k????]
• c?re: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka?.re/, [?kä???]
• c?re: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.re/, [?k????]

Verb

car?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of care?

Adjective

c?re

1. vocative masculine singular of c?rus

References

• care in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• care in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• care in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English caru, ?earu (“care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble”). See Modern English care for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?r(?)/

Noun

care (plural cares)

1. grief; sorrow [from 13th c.]

   • Than Feraunte his cosyn had grete care and cryed full lowde […].

Descendants

• English: care
• Scots: care
• Yola: caure

References

• “c?re, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

care

1. inflection of cara (“walker; frequenting”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural

Verb

care

1. first-person singular present/imperative middle of carati (“to walk”)
2. optative active singular of carati (“to walk”)

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Latin qu?lis, qu?lem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kare/
• Rhymes: -are

Determiner

care

1. which

Inflection

Pronoun

care

1. which, that, who

Etymology 2

Noun

care n pl

1. plural of car (cart)

Etymology 3

Verb

care

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of c?ra
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of c?ra

Venetian

Adjective

care f

1. feminine plural of caro

English

Etymology

From Middle English influence, from Old French influence (“emanation from the stars affecting one's fate”), from Medieval Latin ?nfluentia, from Latin ?nflu?ns (“flowing in”), present active participle of ?nflu? (“flow into”), from in- (“in-”) + flu? (“flow”). Doublet of influenza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.flu.?ns/
• Hyphenation: in?flu?ence

Noun

influence (countable and uncountable, plural influences)

1. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

2. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.

3. A person or thing exerting such power or action.

   • The animals were thoroughly frightened. It seemed to them as though Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers.

4. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.
5. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     God hath his influence into the very essence of all things.

6. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "influence": cultural, political, social, economic, military, personal, moral, intellectual, mental, good, bad, positive, negative, beneficial, harmful, huge, big, heavy, significant, important, potential, actual, primary.

Hyponyms

• social influence

Derived terms

• influencer

Related terms

Translations

Verb

influence (third-person singular simple present influences, present participle influencing, simple past and past participle influenced)

1. (transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.

   The politician wants to influence the public.

   I must admit that this book influenced my outlook on life.

2. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

Derived terms

• influenceable
• influencer
• influencive

Related terms

• influent
• influential
• influenza, flu

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French influence, borrowed from Medieval Latin ?nfluentia, from Latin ?nflu?ns (“flowing in”), present active participle of ?nflu? (“flow into”), from in- (“in-”) + flu? (“flow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.fly.??s/

Noun

influence f (plural influences)

1. influence

Derived terms

• zone d'influence

Related terms

Verb

influence

1. first-person singular present indicative of influencer
2. third-person singular present indicative of influencer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of influencer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of influencer
5. second-person singular imperative of influencer

Further reading

• “influence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin ?nfluentia, from Latin ?nflu?ns (“flowing in”), present active participle of ?nflu? (“flow into”).

Noun

influence f (oblique plural influences, nominative singular influence, nominative plural influences)

1. inundation; flooding; influx of water
2. influence, especially viewed as a mystical force affecting one's fate

Descendants

• ? English: influence
• French: influence

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (influence, supplement)