carious

Meaning

Adjective

• Having caries ; decayed, rotten.

Origin

• From French carieux ("carious"), from carie (from Latin cariēs ("rot#Noun"), from careō, from Proto-Italic *kazēō ("to lack"), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- ("to [[cut#Verb").) + French -eux ("[[-ous") (from Latin -ōsus ("suffix forming adjectives, meaning ‘full of, prone to’"), from Old Latin -ōsos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-went-, *-wont- + *-to-)).