different between carex vs carer

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Latin carex

Noun

carex (plural carexes or carices)

1. Any member of the genus Carex of sedges.

Latin

Alternative forms

• c?rix

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps related to carrere (“to card”); see English card (sense 2). However, compare Welsh cors (“reeds, bog”), Irish corrach (“marsh, bog”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka?.reks/, [?kä???ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.reks/, [?k????ks]

Noun

c?rex f (genitive c?ricis); third declension

1. sedges

Declension

• Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• c?rectum

Descendants

• Catalan: carç, càrritx
• ? English: carex
• French: carex
• Galician: carrizo
• Italian: carice
• Spanish: carrizo
• Translingual: Carex

References

• carex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (2001) , “c?rex”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of André J., 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck, page 100

English

Etymology

care +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k????(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k????/
• Rhymes: -??r?(r)

Noun

carer (plural carers)

1. (Britain, Australia) Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.

   Have you thought of a job as a carer for disabled people?

   He retired early to be a full-time carer for his wife / husband.

Synonyms

• caregiver (US, Canada)

Translations

Anagrams

• Cerra, Crear, crare, racer

French

Verb

carer

1. (slang) Alternative spelling of carrer

Conjugation

Further reading

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

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kar?r/, (South Wales also) /?ka?r?r/

Verb

carer

1. (literary) impersonal subjunctive/imperative of caru

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