cario
Spanish, noun
cario is spelled C-A-R-I-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 116,020th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cario is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “Carian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, carío is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of cariar”. With an accent, carió is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of cariar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Idioma indoeuropeo extincto, que se hablaba en Caria”.
What does cario mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineCarian
noun
- 1
masculineCarian
prefix
- 1
karyo-
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cariar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of cariar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Originario, relativo a, o propio de Caria, antigua región en el sudoeste de la actual Turquía. 2. Perteneciente a esta región asiática, o a su gente, idioma, o cultura.
noun: 1. Idioma indoeuropeo extincto, que se hablaba en Caria.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cario
- carios plural
- caria feminine
- carias feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cario in Spanish?
cario appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).