Chare

Morpheme

Chare

Type

bound base

Denotation

valued, dear, beloved

Etymology

Latin cārus via Old French

Evidence

charitable, charitarian, charitarians, charity, noncharitable, pseudocharitable, uncharitable

Modern Base Analysis

<Charite> denoting charity
alternative modern base analysis without suffixal construction -itarian
from charity (<Chare + -i- + -ty>)
charitarian, charitarians

See Also

Care, -itarian

Homographs

Chare