English
carious
Carious comes from French carie ‘decay’, from Latin cariēs ‘rot, rottenness, corruption’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *kazēō ‘to lack’.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kazēō‘to lack’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcareō‘to lack, be deprived of’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcariēs‘rot, rottenness, corruption’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcarie‘decay’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentcarieux
- Englishearliest quotation 1700carious
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*kazēō‘to lack’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcareō‘to lack, be deprived of’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEcariēs‘rot, rottenness, corruption’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcarie‘decay’
- French, derivedc. 1600–presentcarieux
- Englishearliest quotation 1700carious
Earliest quotation: 1700, Charles Leigh, Of Distempers: “[I]f no Acid be contain’d in the Blood how…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- ‘to cut’
castle, caste, chastity, château, chaste, chastise, castrate, cashel, 22 more
through Latin careō ‘to lack, be deprived of’
through Latin cariēs ‘rot, rottenness, corruption’
Today it means
adj Having caries (bone or tooth decay); decayed, rotten.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *kazēō / carious