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carious

adj
/ˈkɛəɹi.əs/UK/ˈkɛəi.əs/US/ˈkɛɹi.əs/

Etymology

From French carieux (“carious”), from carie (“decay (of bone or teeth)”) (from Latin cariēs (“rot, rottenness, corruption”), from careō (“to lack, be deprived of”), from Proto-Italic *kazēō (“to lack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- (“to cut”).) + French -eux (“-ous”) (from Latin -ōsus (“full of, prone to”), from Old Latin -ōsos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-went-, *-wont- + *-to-)).

  1. derived from *-went-✻
  2. derived from -ōsos
  3. derived from -ōsus
  4. derived from -eux
  5. derived from *ḱes-✻
  6. derived from *kazēō✻
  7. derived from cariēs
  8. derived from carieux

Definitions

  1. Having caries (bone or tooth decay)

    Having caries (bone or tooth decay); decayed, rotten.

    • [I]f no Acid be contain’d in the Blood how comes it, I beſeech you, that in Carious or Virulent Ulcers, the Silver Probe becomes inſtantly of a Livid Colour, which can only be effected by an Acid not an Alkalous Menſtruum?
    • Our disease is democracy. It is not the skin that festers—our very bones are carious, and their marrow blackens with gangrene. Which rogues shall be first, is of no moment—our republicanism must die, and I am sorry for it.
    • My father’s museum contained several preparations of carious teeth.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for carious. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA