caries

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɛə.ɹiːz/
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• General-American: /ˈkɛ.ɹiz/
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• rhymes with -ɛəɹiz
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• homophone: carries
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• homophone: karris (Mary–marry–merry merger, happy-tensing)
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱes-der.? Proto-Italic *kazēō Latin careō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin cariēsbor. English caries Borrowed from Latin cariēs.

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَسَوُّس (tasawwus) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Armenian: ոսկրափտություն (oskrapʻtutʻyun) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Armenian: կարիես (karies) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Bulgarian: ка́риес (káries) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Chinese Mandarin: 齲齒 /龋齿 (qǔchǐ) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Chinese Mandarin: 蛀牙 (zhùyá) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Chinese Mandarin: 蟲牙 /虫牙 (chóngyá) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Czech: kaz — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Czech: zubní kaz — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Danish: karies — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Danish: caries — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Dutch: cariës — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Dutch: tandbederf — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Dutch: gaatjes — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Estonian: kaaries — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Finnish: karies — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Finnish: hammasmätä — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• French: carie — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Galician: carie — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• German: Karies — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Greek: τερηδόνα (teridóna) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Hebrew: עַשֶּׁשֶׁת ('ashéshet) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Hungarian: fogszuvasodás — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Japanese: 齲蝕 (ushoku) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Japanese: う蝕 (ushoku) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Japanese: カリエス (kariesu) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Japanese: 虫歯 (mushiba) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Korean: 충치 (chungchi) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Korean: 카리에스 (karieseu) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Norwegian Bokmål: karies — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Norwegian Nynorsk: karies — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Polish: próchnica — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Portuguese: cárie — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Russian: ка́риес (kárijes) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Russian: ка́риес зубо́в (kárijes zubóv) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Spanish: caries — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Swahili: karisi — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Swedish: karies — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Tagalog: karyes — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Thai: ฟันผุ — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Ukrainian: ка́рієс (kárijes) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay
• Ukrainian: каріо́з (karióz) — progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay