caer

Welsh caer

caer (plural caers)

1. A Welsh fortress.
   • 1892, Grant Allen, Science in Arcady, page 295:

     […] a good many relics of the old Welsh Caers still bespeak the incompleteness of the early Teutonic conquest.

• cair

• e-car, CERA, acer, care, race-, Acre, -care, acre, Cera, Care, Crea, race, Race

caer

1. Alternative form of cayer

• caír
• cair (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese caer, from Late Latin cadēre, from Latin cadĕre. Compare Portuguese cair, Spanish caer, French choir.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈeɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

caer (first-person singular present caio, first-person singular preterite caín, past participle caído)

1. (intransitive) to fall, fall off, fall down
2. (of a time) to fall on; to occur
3. to fall; to decline; to collapse
4. to fall; to die in battle

• Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “caer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “caer”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• “caer” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “caer” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “caer” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Inherited from Late Latin cadēre, from Latin cadĕre. Compare Portuguese cair, Galician caer, French choir.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈeɾ/ [kaˈeɾ]

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• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: ca‧er

caer (first-person singular present caigo, first-person singular preterite caí, past participle caído)

1. (intransitive, reflexive) to fall (to move to a lower position due to gravity)
2. (intransitive) to fall (to come down, to drop, to descend)

   La lluvia cae más fuerte que antes.

   The rain is falling heavier than before.

3. (intransitive, reflexive) to fall down, to collapse (to fall to the ground)
4. (intransitive, reflexive) to fall out (to come out of something by falling)

   El pelo dañado puede caerse.

   Damaged hair can fall out.

5. (intransitive) to fall into, to fall for; to be ensnared by

   caer en la trampa ― to fall into the trap

6. (intransitive) to fall into (to enter a negative state)
7. (intransitive) to fall, to collapse (to be overthrown or defeated)

   El imperio romano cayó poco a poco.

   The Roman Empire fell little by little.

8. (intransitive) to get (to understand)

   No caigo. ― I don't get it.

9. (intransitive) to be granted or awarded

   Le cayó una multa.

   She got fined.

10. (intransitive) to fall under (to belong to for purposes of categorization)
11. (intransitive) to fall on (to occur on a particular day)

• “caer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• acre, arce, cera, crea

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /kaːɨ̯r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /kai̯r/

From Middle Welsh caer, from Old Welsh cair, from Proto-Brythonic *kaɨr (“fort, fortified town”).

See also Cornish ker (“fort”), Breton kêr (“town, city”). Related to cae (“field”).

caer f (plural caerau or caeroedd or ceyrydd)

1. fort, fortress, enclosed stronghold, castle, fortress, citadel, fortified town or city
2. wall, rampart, bulwark
3. twill

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• caffer

caer

1. (literary) impersonal imperative of cael

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “caer”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies