different between errand vs care

English

Alternative forms

• arrand

Etymology

From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ?rende, from Proto-West Germanic *?rund? (“message, errand”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?r'-?nd, IPA^(key): /????nd/
• Rhymes: -???nd

Noun

errand (plural errands)

1. A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
   1. (literary or archaic) A mission or quest.
      • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur

        What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?

      • 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

        Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent.

        In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: a hundred and ten days I have journeyed all alone.

   2. A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)

2. The purpose of such a journey.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

3. An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
   • 1633, John Donne, Elegy VII

     I had not taught thee then the alphabet
     Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set
     And bound up, might with speechless secrecy
     Deliver errands mutely and mutually.

Derived terms

• fool's errand
• lost errand

Translations

Verb

errand (third-person singular simple present errands, present participle erranding, simple past and past participle erranded)

1. (transitive) To send someone on an errand.

   All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.

2. (intransitive) To go on an errand.

   She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.

Anagrams

• Ardern, Darren, Renard, darner

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