caer
Spanish
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to fall to move to a lower position due to gravity
- (intransitive) to fall to come down, to drop, to descend
- (intransitive) to fall down, to collapse to fall to the ground
- (intransitive) to fall out to come out of something by falling
- (intransitive) to fall into, to fall for; to be ensnared by
- (intransitive) to fall into to enter a negative state
- (intransitive) to fall, to collapse to be overthrown or defeated
- (intransitive) to get to understand
- (intransitive) to be granted or awarded
- (intransitive) to fall under to belong to for purposes of categorization
- (intransitive) to fall on to occur on a particular day
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *cadēre, cadere (fall, happen, occur, die) inherited from Proto-Italic *kadō derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d- (fall).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱh₂d-
Gloss
fall
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- accidence English
- accidentally English
- casualty English
- incident English
- occiduous English
- recidivate English
- recidivism English
- recidivistic English
- recidivous English
- *cadentia Latin
- *cadeta Latin
- *cadēre Latin
- accidēns Latin
- cadaver Latin
- cadere Latin
- cadere, cadō, cado Latin
- cado Latin
- cadāver Latin
- casus Latin
- cāsuālis Latin
- decadens Latin
- decadentia Latin
- decido Latin
- dēciduus Latin
- dēcidō, decidere Latin
- excido Latin
- incidens Latin
- occasionem Latin
- occidens Latin
- occidentalis Latin
- occidentem Latin
- recidivus Latin
- recido Latin
- cadere Italian
- cascata Italian
- choir French
- chuter French
- coïncider French
- récidiviste French
- *ḱad- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱh₂d- Proto-Indo-European
- cair Portuguese
- descair Portuguese
- caeir Old French
- chair Old French
- cheoir Old French
- caure Catalan, Valencian
- acaer Galician
- cadoiro Galician
- caer Galician
- cădea Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- caeir Norman
- cheoir Middle French
- caer Old Portuguese
- *kadō Proto-Italic
- cayer Asturian
- cjadê Friulian
- scjadê Friulian
- cazer Old Occitan
- chazer Old Occitan
- càdiri Sicilian
- kai Papiamentu
- cadar Dalmatian
- kai Kabuverdianu
- caré Neapolitan
- caì Istriot
- kai Guinea-Bissau Creole
- chêre Franco-Provençal