Caries, pen. cor. cariéi, pen. prod. Luc. A worme in woode: rottennesse or putrifaction in wood, by long continuaunce.Tenera caries.Ouid.Infestai carie. Col. To be rotten or worme eaten.Sentire cariem. Plin. To rotte.Trahere canem, Idem. Plin. Cariem vetustatis recipere. Colum. Carie pruna rugosa. Mart. Caries vini. Plin. Dregs of wine.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cărĭes, em, ē (other cases appear not to be in use), f.I.Decay, caries (prop. of a hard, dry decay, not of rottenness); of wood, Varr. ap. Non. p. 83, 12; Vitr. 7, 3; Col. 11, 2; Plin. 16, 39, 74, 188; 16, 39, 76, 197; 16, 40, 78, 212; Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 27.— Of walls, Amm. 16, 2, 1.—Of bones, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 21, 24; Cels. 8, 2.—Of dry soil, Col. 3, 11.—Of the taste of old wine, flatness, Col. 3, 2, 17; Plin. 15, 2, 3, 7; 23, 1, 22, 40; 14, 4, 6, 55.—Of old fiuit, Mart. 13, 29, 1.—Hence, II.Trop., in ridicule, of old, withered persons: nemo illā vivit carie cariosior, Afran. ap. Non. p. 21, 27; Turp. ib.