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Word Unit: carr-, carri-; car-, cari- (Latin: wagon, cart; wheeled vehicle).

Word Unit: cart-, carto- + (Greek > Latin: map; card [playing]; a piece of papyrus, paper).

Word Unit: carus, cara, carum + (Latin: dearly, beloved, dear; high-priced, costly).

Word Unit: case- (Latin: cheese).

Word Unit: cast- (Latin: pure, cut off, to cut off from, separated).

Word Unit: castrat-, castra-, castro- (Latin: to cut, geld, spay; to remove the testicles or ovaries of).

Related cutting-word units: -cise, -cide; -ectomy; put-; sec-, seg-; temno-; -tomy; trunc-.

Word Unit: cat + (Greek: katta to Late Latin: cattus, "cat, cats").

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "cat": aeluro-, eluro-; feli-, felin-; galeo-; gato-.

Word Unit: cata-, cat-, cath-, kata- (Greek: down, downward; under, lower; against; entirely, in accordance with, completely, back; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: cathar-, cathart-, cathars- (Greek: to purge, to purify, or to cleanse; purification; cleansing).

Word Unit: catheter- (Greek > Latin: to let down, thrust in [kata, "down" plus hienai, "to send"]).

Word Unit: catoptro-, catoptr- + (Greek: mirror; from kat-[a], "against, back" plus op-[tos], "seen" plus the noun-forming suffix -tron).

Related "mirror" word families: eisoptro-; enoptro; mirac-, mir-.

Word Unit: caudo-, caud- (Latin: tail, toward the tail; downward).

Related "tail" word units: cerc-; peni-; uro-.

Word Unit: caulo-, cauli-, caul- (Greek > Latin: stem, stalk).

Word Unit: caus- (Latin: cause, reason, purpose; judicial process, lawsuit).

Word Unit: caust-, caus-, caut-, cauter-, cau- + (Greek: fire, burn, burner; from kaustikos "capable of burning" and kaukstos "combustible" and from kaiein "to burn").

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly, indirectly, or partly to: "fire, burn, glow, or ashes": ars-, ard-; cand-, cend-; crema-; ciner-; ether-; flagr-; flam-; focus, foci-; fulg-; gehenna-; ign-; phleg-; phlog-; pyreto-, -pyrexia; pyr-; spod- (ashes; waste); volcan-.

Word Unit: caut- + (Latin: wary, careful, heedful; be on one's guard, to take heed; from cavere, to look out, to beware).

Word Unit: cav-, cavo-, cava-, cavi-, cavern- + (Latin: hollow, a hollow place; chasm; prison, literally, a hollow place).

Related "cave, cavern" word sources: speleo-; spelunc-, spelunk-; stalac-, stalag-; troglo--.

Word Unit: caval- (Latin: horse).

Related horse-word units: equ-, equi-; hippo-.

Word Unit: cavo-, cava- (Latin: hollow).

Word Unit: ceal- + (Latin: to hide; hidden).

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "secret, hidden, confidential, concealed": clandesti-; crypto-; myster-; occult-; orgy; stego-, stegano-.

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