carae

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.rae̯/, [ˈkäːräe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.re/, [ˈkäːre]

cārae

1. inflection of cārus:
   1. genitive/dative feminine singular
   2. nominative/vocative feminine plural

• IPA^(key): [ˈkarɘ]

From Proto-Celtic *karants.

carae m (genitive carat, nominative plural carait)

1. friend
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 73^d1

     Fu·lilsain-se .i. matis mu námait duda·gnetis ⁊ maniptis mu chara⟨i⟩t duda·gnetis.

     I would have endured, i.e. if it had been my enemies who did them and if it had not been my friends who did them.

2. relative, kinsman

• cairde
• cairdine
• escarae

• Middle Irish: cara, carait
  • Irish: cara
  • Scottish Gaelic: caraid
  • Manx: carrey

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

(·)carae

1. second-person singular present subjunctive absolute/conjunct of caraid