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Caire

Le Caire

French

Proper noun

Le Caire

  1. Cairo
    au Caire - in Cairo; to Cairo
    du Caire - from Cairo; relating to Cairo

Related terms

Anagrams

caire

caire

See also: Caire

Catalan

Noun

caire m (plural caires)

  1. corner of a polygon or polyhedron
  2. look, aspect, appearance
  3. (archaic) regular tetragon, square

Occitan

Etymology 1

Noun

caire m (plural caires)

  1. corner
  2. side; edge

Etymology 2

From Old Provençal, from Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cadō. Compare Catalan caure.

Alternative forms

Verb

caire

  1. to fall
Conjugation

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kariyā.

Compare Welsh caredd.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkarʲe/

Noun

caire f

  1. crime, fault, sin

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
caire chaire caire
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.