This is strange. I checked out the lewis and short dictionary and some mofo cut out a section of a page that included the entry for “carus”. Went to perseus and carus isn’t linked and I assumed the capitalized word means something else, but that isn’t linked either. I’m doing an etymology cognate list of the 1400 Latin word list, so the only important thing for me is the etymology section. Yes, there is the Oxford dictionary, but I would like to still know what lewis and short has to say. I’d like to compare and contrast later anyways, so it helps reduce repetitive memory work.
carus (not charus; in Inscrr. often karus, Inscr. Orell. 1175; 2417 al.), a, um, adj. [Sanscr. kan, to be beloved; karu, agreeable]
Hey thanks. The etymology seems kind of short for a popular word like this, but oh well.
Strange indeed. I think I looked this up at Perseus not too long ago and actually found it. They sometimes do not list very common words, which does not make sense to me. People still look up words that every first year Latin student should know just to see their etymologies or to see certain peculiar usages. Interestingly, the OLD states that carus is related to English “whore”. If you haven’t seen it already, there is a good discussion on the root of carus (and “whore”) [u]here[/u].
Well certainly, a cara may be a whora in disguise, an object of desire either way. 
Lol. The funny thing is that third person feminine pronoun is also whore as well (In middle English and certain cases).